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'NYT' Bullied Boy Bullied a Boy

tempest — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:23:42 EDT

What is it you call a [person who's being picked on by a bully] anyway? A "bullee"?

I'm so confused.

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AirforceAmy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:31:03 EDT

With his out-of-date hair and bruises, he looks like a kid from an 80's after-school special about beaten up kids beating up other kids.

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Sulky Girl — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:01:00 EDT

@ambitious: Thank you. Just like the American West. Just like the American territories of Guam and American Samoa. Equating the behavior with the geography is an oversimplification.

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nycheartbreaker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:00:01 EDT

@Colonel Mustard: "This kid is twelve, not six, and he should be able to differentiate right from wrong without additional guidance from his parents."

Please, please don't become a parent. Ever. Thank you.

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iplaudius — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:17:27 EDT

The more you know!

iplaudius

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ObtuseIntolerant — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:06:22 EDT

So did his mistreatment of weaker people (Germans, the disabled) come before his being bullied (that is, was it heroic payback?) or after (is he really really that stupid?)

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ambitious — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:59:30 EDT

@Katxyz: I've seen bruised white people before (I actually had one in my bed this morning*) with yellow-edged bruises but never yellow yellow just yellow bruises. That looks cah-ray-zee. I guess I need to beat up more white people in order to learn all of your mysterious mysteries.

* I didn't do it! But he's German so maybe Billy did it? I bet Billy did it.

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iplaudius — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:56:04 EDT

And that’s one to grow on!

iplaudius

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hypocriteoath — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:45:24 EDT

@Colonel Mustard: yeah, the wheelchair kid stuff is inexcusable but 12 year olds still have years of formative experience/time ahead of them. the kid is troubled but not a lost cause... yet. the parents and school administrators however are all pretty weak people from what I've seen so far.

hypocriteoath

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Uncle Ruckus — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:43:42 EDT

"But the NYT article by Dan Barry makes no mention of the police report or the details contained in it. Nor did Dan Barry's reporting uncover any of the information from the interviews contained in the Northwest Arkansas Times article..."

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story

Uncle Ruckus

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Katxyz — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:41:30 EDT

@ambitious:

Bruises allow white people to experience every color of the rainbow, sometimes simultaneously. Right now I have a black a blue edged with green and yellow. It's grotesquely beautiful.

Katxyz

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Seeräuber Jenny — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:40:53 EDT

@Seeräuber Jenny:

Sorry, "epically weird creeps."

"Epically weird" was good.

Seeräuber Jenny

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bittergreen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:39:46 EDT

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: Is this from experience or from reading Joe R. Lansdale?

bittergreen

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Jaynine — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:32:29 EDT

NYT has morphed into a fiction magazine. Between the blatant slant on every hard news article and the plain made up feature articles, cant believe a word they say.

PS: "All kids are assholes" priceless!!

Jaynine

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Seeräuber Jenny — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:31:36 EDT

@if_i_only_had_a_heart:

Gothic, schmothic, Dixie was written by a New Yorker.

Nobody knows the deeply twisted personalizing weird creeps I've seen...

Nobody knows but "South" New Yorkers....

Seeräuber Jenny

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VirusWithShoes — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:30:02 EDT

@brownham: A facile argument there. Some who are abused live the rest of their lives doing the complete opposite.

@BeachLover420: Agreed.

VirusWithShoes

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City_Dater — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:23:26 EDT

Wow.
A kid who's a jerk gets beat up by other jerks.

Was Dan Barry homeschooled or something?

City_Dater

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BeachLover420 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:21:18 EDT

@brownham: Not all of us!!!!!! Just saying.........

BeachLover420

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Road_Rash — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:18:46 EDT

@hypocriteoath: I couldn't agree with you more.

Road_Rash

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brownham — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:14:50 EDT

people that get abused, abuse back.

It 's lame what he did, but likely a result of being beat on for years

brownham

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Private Hangnail — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:09:22 EDT

It's unfortunate that Barry, if he knew about it, omitted this particular facet from the piece. It certainly would have been a more nuanced view of bullying; the trickle-down nature of cruelty in what is ultimately a Darwinian environment: our superb education system.

Private Hangnail

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izzodee544 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:09:02 EDT

I mean... I see the hypocrisy, but you have to admit that messing with people with muscular dystrophy is hilarious.

izzodee544

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VirusWithShoes — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:08:13 EDT

@fiveinchtaint: Speak for yourself - I had a short talk with my cats this morning, and all I could get out of them (apart from their usual Julia Allison gossip) was "back up your data".

I've been burning DVD's full of stuff since 10 o'clock and watching the skies steadily darken with ever-greater numbers of crows.

VirusWithShoes

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smartastic — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:08:03 EDT

@ambitious: yellow's like stage three. purple > green > yellow. it is weird, huh?

smartastic

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sonicwav — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:03:47 EDT

When I read this article initially, I thought it sounded like it was something out of The Onion. Guess I wasn't too far off.

sonicwav

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VirusWithShoes — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:03:43 EDT

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: Thanks for that. I have a bad case of Friday-fingers.

VirusWithShoes

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if_i_only_had_a_heart — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:02:26 EDT

@bittergreen: there is something epicly weird and gothic about cruelty in the south

in ny it's just fuck it

down south it's deeply twisted and personal

if_i_only_had_a_heart

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fiveinchtaint — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:02:11 EDT

@VirusWithShoes: It is nearing alignment with the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the moon, at which point the south pole will upset its axis and flood the earth. Only the cats know how to avoid this, but we can't communicate with them.

fiveinchtaint

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if_i_only_had_a_heart — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:01:33 EDT

@VirusWithShoes:

fixed the typo: The NYT usual "very sloppy reporting"?

if_i_only_had_a_heart

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Colonel Mustard — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:00:53 EDT

@hypocriteoath: I disagree, to an extent. This kid is twelve, not six, and he should be able to differentiate right from wrong without additional guidance from his parents. Yes, they clearly failed him at a crucial stage in his development, but any kid who would mercilessly harass a muscular dystrophy patient is going to hell, and going there on his own terms.

Colonel Mustard

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tempest — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:00:49 EDT

Kids beating kids up? I've never heard of such a thing. Colour me shocked and appalled.

Then again, I live in Canada.

tempest

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bittergreen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:59:13 EDT

@BettyCrocker:

What does this have to do with the deep south? This every playground from Minot ND, to Brownsville TX to Bangore MN to Sacramento CA.

So while the Times Reporter may have conveniently left out some details to make the circumstance fit his story, the fact is that the original story about kids beating up other kids is about as newsworthy as Times Reporters making shit up.

bittergreen

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ambitious — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:55:52 EDT

@BettyCrocker: Just like the American North.

ambitious

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ambitious — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:54:33 EDT

White people turn yellow when bruised? That's kind of weirdly cool.

You know what? All kids are assholes. That should have been the first line of the article.

But to be fair to this particular asshole, Germans ARE gay. Everyone knows that.

ambitious

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VirusWithShoes — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:54:03 EDT

The NYT and "very sloppy reporting"?

What is happening to the world?

VirusWithShoes

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kathotdog — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:53:02 EDT

*cue music*
The Circle of Life

kathotdog

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BettyCrocker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:51:02 EDT

@Mike_Jahn: As I said...

BettyCrocker

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hypocriteoath — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:49:33 EDT

@ExecutiveIntern: @NorCal: @MyCubeHas3Sides:
A bullied kid [any of the kids mentioned] goes on to bully some kids [any of the kids mentioned, again] or a bully [most of the kids] gets bullied by other bullies [you get the point now]. either way, it's all kind of sad and pathetic that we make such a big deal about these kids and then chastise and rip on 12 year olds when really the focus should be on their parents and the school for obviously doing very little and letting the cycle continue. but as we see from the comments, it's much easier to just snark what's right in front of you and an easy target, kind of like... BULLYING! I expect more from all of you. I mean, at least be funny.

hypocriteoath

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Mike_Jahn — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:45:22 EDT

@BettyCrocker: Hey! Arkansas gave us Bill and Hil!

Mike_Jahn

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Botswana Meat Commission FC — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:44:58 EDT

Not Billy Wolfe! My world is shattered.

I really like those sort of impressionistic, slice-of-life type stories, but they only work if you're not overly concerned with niceties like fact checking and both-sides-of-the-coin-ism. If you're gonna go gonzo, go all the way gonzo.

Botswana Meat Commission FC

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MyCubeHas3Sides — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:41:44 EDT

Karma will run over your ass!

(But this jaggoff will probably end up with a book deal or Lifetime movie: "My Name is Billy" *sigh*)

MyCubeHas3Sides

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BettyCrocker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:38:27 EDT

Ah, the American South, home of convenient short term memory loss, revisionist history, and every manner of cruelty mankind can dream up.

BettyCrocker

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NorCal — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:38:24 EDT

This kid deserves to have the shit beat out of him. Send him running back to his double-wide!

NorCal

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ExecutiveIntern — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:37:41 EDT

I am so happy I ripped on this little dweeb back when this was originally posted.

VINDICATION!

ExecutiveIntern