This can be said for a lot of things, but I will use private school as an example. There was a Reddit post not too long ago about middle-class parents whose teen got a scholarship to go to an exclusive, elite private school, like an upper-class, six-figure-tuition, multi-millionaire-type school, and to no one’s surprise, their kid not only got bullied badly, but the rich kids who didn’t bully them just shunned them. It was an EXTREMELY classist school, and the parent was asking, “What do I do?!” Umm, how about taking your kid out? If the kid is smart enough to get a scholarship, then they could easily get into a good school with good grades. If the kid is in an environment where they get bullied, everyone hates them. They are insecure because they are surrounded by ultra-rich kids; their performance will be poor. And also, why are you shocked, Pikachu-faced, when you sent your kid here knowing there is a high probability the kid would get bullied?
Same thing with Christian parents who are people of colour: some non-white Christians will send their kids to a mostly white Christian school and then get shocked when they experience racism (I’m not saying all majority-white Christian schools are racist; I’m using this as an example). THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SENDING THEM THERE???! I can’t even get mad at the bullies at this point, but it’s YOUR JOB as the parent to protect your kid!
It would be like if you had a transgender or openly gay kid and you took him to a Christian church.
At a certain point this is just on you now.
By now I think you are a bot employed by the mods to boost engagement or something.
I mean, can there really be a real, honest human being full of so many shit takes?
Coming from the person who think age gaps between adults are strange. Has no empathy for a friend’s dying chind, and thinking superheroes are terrible because they lie to hide their identity.
This terrible take seems on point for you.
It’s oddly gratifying when users consistently live up to the custom red flag tags I’ve assigned them…
There are gay and transgender people at my Christian church and I love them just as much as any of God’s children. Granted, I’m catholic not one of the more anti lgbtq denominations. I’ve interacted with your posts before and they are always filled with strange and troubling lines of reasoning.
This.
Every single time I start reading one of the posts by this guy, I know it’s that psycho by the end of it.
Yeeeee, and almost never responds to any of the comments. Definitely hasn’t responded to any of mine.
Wow.
The poor kid at a private school thing statistically has 1 of 2 effects on the kid.
- The kid gets bullied and as a result of that crashes and burns
- The kid gets bullied and as a result of that succeeds a million times better due to the hyper competitive high pressure environment. And fucks with their head a bit.
This is why the unites states is so successful they create a similar scenario for all citizens. Many burn but the extremes of the environment create the most successful people in the world. The same mathematics used to model Darwinian selection apply. A high selective pressure upon the population will help those better suited to compete succeed way more than without that pressure.
So here’s the hot take bullying is not necessarily a bad thing. It simply applies a high pressure to kids by other kids teaching them about how to successfully navigate the world. And before everyone goes off at me saying I don’t know what I’m talking about I got bullied in highschool and as a result of that I’m probably in the top 5% most successful people from who I went to school with. I feel its correlated. OHG and also I learned how to beat someone up and funny enough the bullying instantly stopped. So maybe the parents should simply teach their kids two to fight then get em to read “the prince” by Machiavelli to learn how to effectively apply that to the school student political environment.
“Being bullied can be good; I was bullied and ended it by engaging in violence!” is like “I grew my business from nothing with a small loan of 10 million from my parents”
Yes, teaching kids how to stand up for themselves and interact with unfriendly peers is a good thing. But sending a child into an abusive situation and saying “you figure it out” is still bad parenting.
