this from david neiwert:
I was struck by a passage from one of the many e-mails I've gotten this past week, from a woman named Mary B. who lives in a rural Southern town:
"My 11 year old daughter in the 6th grade was the ONLY student to wear a Kerry/Edwards button to school, out of 729 students in her middle school. Her classmates ridiculed her, told her to get the hell away from them, and kicked at her desk all day to separate her from them. They even told her she was not a "Christian" because she supported Kerry. They told her that Kerry was gay because he supported gay marriage. Today was even worse. They gloated, jeered and sneered at her from the minute she stepped out of the car to the minute she was picked up from school. They did not have to kick her desk because she intentionally moved it away from them."
I think we know what we're all dealing with here. If it becomes pervasive, there won't be any point in pretending that fascism hasn't descended on us.
at bush campaign rallies, supporters took a pledge of allegiance to bush.
the extremist religious right is all giddy for a national cleansing, and gays are their chosen scapegoat. who was it that said everybody has a little nazi inside them?
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Damn! And really rather shocking! What bout this girl's friends?? Were they allowing this nonsense to go on?? And teachers???
Here in the Bay Area, differences are a way of life. One isn't ridiculed for them. Guess it helps to live where open-mindedness is the norm.
it doesn't surprise me. i was repeatedly sexually harassed in junior high by the same set of boys, and the school administration didn't do a damned thing.
bullying is actually rampant in schools, and rarely do school administrators do anything to stop it.
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