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Old 12-29-2011, 03:30 PM
 
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Only if you are evenly matched with the bully in size of fighting skills. Bullys are usually bigger and stronger than their victims.
They also often attack in groups, so they have greater numbers. In poor urban areas some are even packing heat.
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Old 12-29-2011, 03:31 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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They also often attack in groups, so they have greater numbers. In poor urban areas some are even packing heat.
What you are describing is a gang, not a bully.
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Old 12-29-2011, 03:34 PM
 
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What you are describing is a gang, not a bully.
Gangs don't have bullies? Bullies don't hang out with other bullies?
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Old 12-29-2011, 05:40 PM
 
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You mean like every white man on the Jerry Springer show?

I don't watch Jerry Springer. I take it you do? And you take it seriously enough to use it to make a point?
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Old 12-29-2011, 05:44 PM
 
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As long as you can make fun of hayseeds, homophobes. fundamentalist Christains, southerners, rednecks, meatheads, cavemen, and other species of Republican, I have no complaints. I love bashing these cretins. I hope they don't get all pansy on me and cry to mamma that it's no fair. Ha ha ha! They need to put their big girl panties on and quit being such wimps.
Don't worry; such groups will NEVER be affored the protection of anti-bullying laws. Only Progressivism's mascots get that.
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Old 12-30-2011, 09:16 AM
 
Location: Camberville
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No assumption on my part. Worked for me as a kid and also worked for my son in school and worked for a colleagues daughter in her school.

Yeah...that's right..THREE experiences in my little world that worked when "old fashioned values" were used.
I punched a kid when I was in early elementary school for making fun of me for being Jewish. He got a bloody nose and stopped for about 2 days.

Next thing we knew, we had a cross burned on our lawn. And the bullying far from stopped. This was the early 90s in what was then rural Georgia.

My family had to move to a school district that was a little more diverse (ie. we might still be the only Jews but *gasp* kids were exposed to Catholics! And black people once in a while!) because the bullying was non-stop no matter what I did and the school said it was just kids being kids. We still got bullied for our religion in the new school, but the teachers took it serious. Surprise surprise - that was much more effective than the "old fashioned way".
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Old 12-30-2011, 09:17 AM
 
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WTF happened to this country? Everyone is so easily offended. You cant anything remotely negative about: Jews, gays, religion, "midgets", blacks, conservatives, women, etc... Without any public backlash!

When did America become such a nation of pansy's? What happened to the good old days when you can just speak your mind? Toughen up people. This is getting embarrasing for this country amongst other things that there are to be embarrased about. There's too much political correctness going on.
The marketplace of ideas sometimes gets noisy.
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Old 12-31-2011, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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As long as you can make fun of hayseeds, homophobes. fundamentalist Christains, southerners, rednecks, meatheads, cavemen, and other species of Republican, I have no complaints. I love bashing these cretins. I hope they don't get all pansy on me and cry to mamma that it's no fair. Ha ha ha! They need to put their big girl panties on and quit being such wimps.
Don't see anybody wimping out, but the above is just part and parcel of what the Left is all about today.

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As a Republican I can tell you that, considering the source of these jibes and adolescent insults, we pay it little attention. Simple minds crave simple entertainment.
Yeah, instead we go about winning elections!
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Old 12-31-2011, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Virginia Beach
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What you are describing is a gang, not a bully.
Which is still technically a bully and bullying.

The anti-bully policy is fine and dandy.

Getting uppity about jokes typically isn't.
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Old 12-31-2011, 11:25 AM
 
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WTF happened to this country? Everyone is so easily offended. You cant anything remotely negative about: Jews, gays, religion, "midgets", blacks, conservatives, women, etc... Without any public backlash!

When did America become such a nation of pansy's? What happened to the good old days when you can just speak your mind? Toughen up people. This is getting embarrasing for this country amongst other things that there are to be embarrased about. There's too much political correctness going on.
We are not a country of "doers" anymore. We are a country of watchers and talkers. So words become too important.
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