Friday, June 15, 2012
Is this an image? Its a picture of words.
Pictures of words always mean more than just plain simple words.
So, lets look at a scenario.
You are a 13 year old boy with poor impulse control and poor social skills, which comes across as teasing and slurs. You don't know or don't understand how much this offends people. Then, one day, a full grown man grabs you and assaults you.
Who is the bully in this situation?
The story presented here doesn't have any context. The boy doing the bullying could be a hardened deliberate sadist, or he could just be a boy who is unaware of what he is doing. In either case, is violence the answer?
One of the things that propaganda does is make people "acceptable targets". Homophobia and bullying are not popular things, and by presenting someone as a homophobic bully, you make them a target for...more bullying.
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