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RosethornRanger@spore.social ("RosethornRanger (it/its) 🏳️‍⚧") wrote:

It is essential to remember that oppression is not just someone having a "bad idea". Oppression is a system of learning to use violence to extract resources from other social classes for personal benefit. Bullying isn't about attention because oppression isn't just a "wrong idea" to debate/correct

A Tumblr post by pocket-deer-belly that says "the reason most anti bullying psa's completely fail is because they fail to identify why people bully others, and fail to identify that kids actually do internalize oppressive structures really early on. White kids understand that racialized kids are easy targets, and white teachers either fail to catch racism or are racist themselves. Non-disabled kids understand that disabilities are easy to pick on, kids recognize the sissy archetype very early on, boys internalize that girls are lesser than them, kids notice they can take advantage of autistic behavior, and it flies under the radar because teachers offer little support to no support for marginalized kids or outright victim blame them. 'ignoring' bullies is a model that assumes bullies just want attention. We should instead assume bullies are taking advantage of others.