{"id":16891,"date":"2014-04-19T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16891"},"modified":"2014-05-23T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T16:10:08","slug":"nebraska-school-faces-heat-on-facebook-for-bullying-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/04\/19\/nebraska-school-faces-heat-on-facebook-for-bullying-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska School Faces Heat on Facebook for Bullying Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Las Vegas Guardian<\/em> has the story Nebraska School Faces Heat on Facebook for Bullying Message<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I was incensed when I read this story yesterday.\u00a0 What kind of message does the principal of the school send when she writes comments such as “Would we keep our friends if we tattled on them?” and “It’s the person who retaliates or responds, who actually starts the fight” and “No one likes a sore loser”?<\/p>\n
I can see giving advice on how to stand-up to a bully, but blaming the victim is exactly the wrong attitude.\u00a0 Standing up to a bully may be reasonable advice to someone who can do it.\u00a0 However, for someone who is not capable of doing it, making that person feel inadequate is only to double the pain.\u00a0 It leaves the victim feeling alone and unprotected by the very people who should be responsible for protecting him or her.<\/p>\n
In fact, a victim might be better able to stand-up to the bully if he or she knew that the adults in the world would also stand-up for the victim if the situation were to get out of hand.<\/p>\n
You can tell how well a person has internalized this stupid message by their reactions to criminal behavior as adults.\u00a0 Look at the Whitey Bulger case in Boston.\u00a0 Some adults are more incensed that Bulger might have been an informant for the FBI than they are incensed by the murders he committed and the terrorism that he used in Boston.\u00a0 The way that the FBI protected their informant may also be a reflection of internalizing the stupid message.\u00a0 The FBI seemed more concerned about their informant than they were about the victims.\u00a0 Although it may just have been a case of plain old corruption in the FBI.<\/p>\n
This idea that it is abhorrent to be a snitch is something that needs to be stamped out. If the principal of the school in Nebraska cannot show that she has learned how seriously wrong her attitude is (not just that the wording is wrong), then she ought to be fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Las Vegas Guardian has the story Nebraska School Faces Heat on Facebook for Bullying Message. I was incensed when I read this story yesterday.\u00a0 What kind of message does the principal of the school send when she writes comments such as “Would we keep our friends if we tattled on them?” and “It’s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17180,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions\/17180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}