The New York Times op-ed page thinks we need to dial back the use of the term "bullying," and I couldn't agree more:
All the misdiagnosis of bullying is making the real but limited problem seem impossible to solve. If every act of aggression counts as bullying, how can we stop it? Down this road lies the old assumption that bullying is a rite of childhood passage. But that’s wrong.
Bullying is a particular form of harmful aggression, linked to real psychological damage, both short and long term. There are concrete strategies that can succeed in addressing it — and they all begin with shifting the social norm so that bullying moves from being shrugged off to being treated as unacceptable. But we can’t do that if we believe, and tell our children, that it’s everywhere.Keep reading HERE.
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See also: "hate" or "hater"
No, saying snarky things about some pop singer or a movie or an actor or whomever is not hate, nor is disagreeing with someone "hate".
I've been irritated by this for a while now. It's especially frustrating that the bullies claim they're being bullied when their victims fight back.
We're seeing a lot of this nonsense from the religious right, who have bullied gays for decades. We push back, and they cry about being victims.
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