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Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!

Umbrage

Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!
November 02, 2011, 11:06:08 PM
Politically incorrect news from Britain:

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UK Teachers: Bullied Students Should 'Act Less Gay'

A new report from Essex County, England has both UK politicians and LGBT advocates up in arms, as students reveal teachers urged those targeted by bullies to "act less gay" to stop being tormented.

According to The London Evening Standard, a recent report found "anecdotal evidence" of teachers urging students to suppress their individually and act more heteronormatively in order to combat bullying. "Students [were] being told to act less gay or wear their hair differently," the report said, "as teachers felt they were making themselves a target for bullies."

The news breaks on the same day that international pop star Lady Gaga has announced the formation of the Born This Way Foundation, meant to help bullied teens. It also comes in a media cycle that seems to portray new stories of gay teen bullying and suicide every day, including the recent brutal murder of Stuart Walker, likely the result of a gay hate crime.

Jordan Newell, chairman of the Colchester Labour Party and a member of the Labour Campaign for LGBT Rights, said he was "incredibly shocked" by the report's findings.

"I think the report shows a complete lack of understanding of the issue and on how to tackle bullies," Newell, 27, told The Advocate. "It is incredibly stark and paints a picture that teachers are holding up their hands and not trying to defend pupils who are expressing their differences."

According to the UK Equalities and Human Rights Commission, two thirds of lesbian, gay and transgender students have suffered long-term bullying, and 17 percent of LGBT youth reported receiving death threats.

Julie Keating, Essex County Council's principle officer for anti-bullying, compiled the "Anti-Bullying Work" report over the last month, including working with the Young Essex Assembly to hold open meetings to discuss bullying in school.

An official spokesman for the Essex County Council said it took these revelations "very seriously," would reach out to instructors on how to give "sensible" advice to bullied students. The council is developing an anti-bulling information packet to give to trainee teachers in this region of the UK, and hopes that word will spread.

Keating places most of the blame on lack of information and preparedness. "Teachers received very little training at college around bullying," Keating said, "and most would welcome additional support and guidance."

In some cases, this statement is likely to be true. Almost no teachers receive training in how to deal with bullying, much less those who target LGBT youth, and some may view tactics like those described above as helping these children get through the day.

Additional details in the report, however, point to a less common but far more alarming pattern of victim-blaming. Students who contributed the report often noted indifference on the part of instructors, with some acting markedly insensitive or unsympathetically towards their gay (or simply rumored to be gay) pupils.

A conference hosted by Youth Essex Assembly Nov. 1 attracted some 250 teachers and students, expressing "an overriding feeling that our current practcies are having minimal effect." In the meantime, teachers across the Essex, UK school district are being told to monitor their own and other instructors' advice to thsoe vulnerable to teen bullying. Such monitoring, it appears, is sorely needed.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/242271/20111102/uk-teachers-bullied-students-act-gay.htm
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Heydrich

Re: Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!
November 03, 2011, 02:38:20 AM
Best thread title in ages!!  And probably sage advice as well.
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WAAAAAAGH!

Re: Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!
November 04, 2011, 03:21:53 PM
HA!

We send kids to school to learn. We do not send our kids to school to express their individuality.
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Jim Necroslaughter

Re: Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!
November 05, 2011, 04:23:00 PM
Quote from: WAAAAAAGH! on November 04, 2011, 03:21:53 PM
We send kids to school to learn. We do not send our kids to school to express their individuality.

That's perfect!  I'm going to use that.
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Archidamus

Re: Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!
November 15, 2011, 05:12:09 AM
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istaros

Re: Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!
November 15, 2011, 09:26:43 AM
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HE WHO REAPS STORMS, SOWS WINDS. HE WHO SOWS WINDS, REAPS STORMS.

"It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart."
-Ecclesiastes 7:2

Nimbostratus

Re: Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!
November 16, 2011, 07:41:37 PM
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lafindumonde

Re: Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!
November 19, 2011, 01:23:20 AM
Yeah! If you don't agree with the herd mentality and they harass you, its because you deserve it! Go herd!
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Queequeg

Re: Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!
November 19, 2011, 08:36:47 AM
While I can agree that going along with the herd isn't / shouldn't be the right choice for everyone. I am also under the impression that if you can't fight a crowd of blood-thirsty minotaurs, you probably shouldn't dance naked in front of them while dousing yourself in gravy (unless you really love zoophilia and sodomy.)
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Conservationist

Re: Bullied at school? Stop being a faggot!
November 19, 2011, 12:52:11 PM
Quote from: Heydrich on November 03, 2011, 02:38:20 AM
And probably sage advice as well.

Or at the very least, do not yield. Do not become a compliant victim. If you're much smaller than the bully or bullies, you can still thwart them with mockery and resistance. Whatever you do, don't get all humble. And at any chance, make their day worse. One guy I knew drugged the bully's food and that knocked the idiot out for a few hours; when he came to, the friend told him that they'd had a "special moment." Classic. Another trick is to plant known homosexual items (analube, dildos, etc) on your bully in a public setting.

You can also go with the old fashioned burn his fucking house down, which I suspect is the reason for two partial house fires at my high school.
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