A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers.

  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    7 months ago

    What often happens in these cases, you’ll see, is that nothing is every done about the issue until the victim fights back. Then they usually both get punished equally.

    The initial bullying is often completely ignored.

    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      7 months ago

      Teachers tend to treat one sided aggression (ie bullying) as an annoyance they must deal with, often daily, so it’s brushed off as par for the course. Once two parties are swinging it’s a fight, and since they’re already used to excusing bullying, it must be the retaliator who was wrong.

      • smh@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        7 months ago

        “it takes two to tango” that is, there’d not be a fight if the victim didn’t resist. Therefore both parties are at fault /s

        • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          7 months ago

          yuuuup “Why’d you hit back? Now I can’t ignore it!”

          I also think teachers get used to bullies because they act out so frequently and just accept their behavior as default, so they subconsciously think yeah that kid is supposed to hit other kids, but it was weird the quiet one flipped out all of a sudden (flipped out meaning acted exactly like the kid they ignore does all the time)