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Originally Posted by SportsDino
Whether she slept with someone or not, that shouldn't be excuse for an excessive campaign of terror on her.
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I haven't seen anyone excuse it, not here nor elsewhere. As far as I can figure I've probably been the most outspoken on that subject here & even I limited it to whether a specific taunt was legitimately actionable while acknowledging how much of the other stuff was obviously actionable.
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How is it hard to believe that the LEADING contributing factor to her suicide is the repeated attacks on her by everyone in her peer group?
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I believe having a switchblade held to your throat in middle school for the joint sins of being white & being smart, still having the scars on my arm from scratches inflicted at age 8 by a school bus teenager angry because I could read better than she could, and a laundry list of lesser offenses on a daily & even hourly basis qualifies as a having been bullied, so I can at least speak from personal experience on the subject.
And with that I have a difficult time believing any of that is the #1 factor in a suicide, which is also from the perspective of having put a loaded gun in my mouth for the first time at age 13.
Underlying issues led to my suicidal reaction to various provocations, but the abuse did not dictate my reaction.