• @[email protected]
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    485 months ago

    My kid was the last one in their school year to get a smartphone. He was bullied for not having a smartphone. He used to ask me for one several times a day and I stuck to what I’d said, he’ll get one on his birthday. I still feel it was far too early. He was 10 when he got it.

    • @[email protected]
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      125 months ago

      You did the right thing. If it was the 1900s and everyone else was to give their child cigarettes, they might get bullied for having no cigarettes, but you know what is best and you stuck with it

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        5 months ago

        Also you are not getting bullied because you don’t have cigarettes or smartphones, but because you lack self confidence and because you are perceived as social weak (your friends and random bystanders would not come to your help).

        • @SuddenDownpour
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          265 months ago

          No, you are getting bullied because humans beings are morons who will jump to bully whoever is perceived as different. Do not blame the victim, for fuck sake.

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            -55 months ago

            Maybe it’s an useful trait that saved us from the other evil hominids? That and the uncanny valley.

            • @SuddenDownpour
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              55 months ago

              Well good fucking job evolution, you managed to screw over autistic people who have empathy while psychopaths who know how to fake it get to abuse everyone

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                -25 months ago

                I mean, they wouldn’t even survive if we were still living under the survival of the fittest stuff, which our society doesn’t allow most of the time 🤔

                • @SuddenDownpour
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                  15 months ago

                  Honestly you’re severely ill-informed in both autism, evolution and prehistorical anthropology

        • @[email protected]
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          115 months ago

          You have completely misunderstood this and are trying to overlay some bizarre Andrew Tate-esque psychobabble to explain your misunderstanding.

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              You have drawn an incorrect conclusion about the specifics of the social mechanics and cited it as “from your experience” after presenting it as fact.

              You could simply have a poor grasp of social mechanics, or be misinformed, misunderstood the original premise but ultimately it doesn’t really matter.

              You implied lack of conformity and participation is not a cause of bullying - it absolutely is, its probably the original cause of most bullying.

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                -15 months ago

                A lot of words to say that you disagree, without actually explaining why bullies are not targeting kids who are at social disadvantage.