Cynthia Gómez: When children tease, they are imitating the adult world. And they are using their only power -- ridicule -- to try and impose the racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and other prejudices of the world, wherever they can. It's why "anti-bullying" campaigns do not work.

Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pennsylvania, impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos on TikTok. The incident is the first known mass attack of its kind by middle schoolers on their teachers in the U.S.

Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their Schoolnyti.ms Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.

When children tease, they are imitating the adult world. And they are using their only power -- ridicule -- to try and impose the racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and other prejudices of the world, wherever they can. It's why "anti-bullying" campaigns do not work.

^^ this!!

"Kids are so cruel" because they learn it from adults.

Well, they do "work" in that whenever somebody complains about bullying, the school can just shout "Hey, we had an ASSEMBLY about this, I don't know what else you want us to do. You were probably asking for it anyway. Have you tried being less socially unacceptable?"

Bullying doesn’t stop; it just finds another outlet.

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