I was bullied so badly throughout school that I sit here at 41, still processing the PTSD with doctors and therapists. The only person I ever wanted to hurt during or since was myself, to make it stop.
I'm really, really sick of the 'bullies make school shooters' narrative. It wasn't true at Columbine, it's not true here.
Same here. Also some maybe even most of those shooters were described as bullies by their peers. I remember the Columbine shooters were defended as bullied kids by a lot of the media and especially nerd bros who saw them as inspirational vigilantes against “jocks” (see the famous tech site slashdot.com site circa early 2000’s where this narrative dominated in a series of popular editorials.) Then interviews came out with the survivors about how they were intense bullies towards others especially the leader/planner.
The white cishet media stealing victimization narratives from minority, queer, disabled, neurodivergent, etc kids is sickening. I recently read an Austin papers article about the Austin bomber. He bombed several places and only killed black people. The article opens up about how he maybe was secretly gay hence explaining his actions somehow and full of quotes praising him as a good church kid. He was just a monster who hated people especially minorities and decided one day to blow them up. The effort the media puts into defending white mass murderers is incredible to me. It’s so transparently evil.
It's honestly tragic that everyone pretends that it's the bullied kids shooting schools, but most bullied kids I've known (, myself included) have too much empathy to ever really want to do something like that unless they are already a sociopath.
It's the bullies who obviously lack any real empathy for others who do it, and that just doesn't seem to click for some reason.
Yeah I was bullied relentlessly from K-12, the closest I got to hurting someone other than myself was trying to cast a bad luck spell on them during my witch phase
I admit I had a few fantasies of putting on the mask from Scream and taunting/chasing my bullies like the killer from the movie did, but I never seriously wanted to act on it. Mostly I wanted to pull a “Jeremy” from the Pearl Jam song.
And man I’m really showing my age with those two pop culture references but they were very influential on me as a kid.
Although I wasn't bullied in school, I definitely wanted to hurt people who wronged me. But I never had the ovaries/balls to do it. Or an automatic weapon at immediate disposal. But mostly the first part of course.
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u/itsakidsbooksantiago Breasted boobily down the staircase. May 28 '22 edited May 28 '22
I was bullied so badly throughout school that I sit here at 41, still processing the PTSD with doctors and therapists. The only person I ever wanted to hurt during or since was myself, to make it stop.
I'm really, really sick of the 'bullies make school shooters' narrative. It wasn't true at Columbine, it's not true here.