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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

That was my experience in school. I frequently got worse punishment than my bullies. Then the one day I actually fought back I got worse punishment again. But the next day I was ignored by the bullies.

I can just hear someone out there saying that's what the school wanted to teach me but dude, it was not some reasoned, cool headed, defense of myself. It was a dirty emotional scrap where I used anything I had to hand. If I had possessed a weapon it would have been used. That's not resilience training, that's trauma and teaching kids they cannot trust authority. Because if you think the lesson was lost on anyone around me then you are a fool.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

teaching kids they cannot trust authority

Which is still a valuable lesson

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

No, this isn't, "don't talk to the police". This is, "don't pay taxes, don't vote, fight the police, fuck everything, the system is rigged and all government employees are complicit in a system of cruelty."

One of those is a valuable lesson and the other is going to give us the next Unabomber.

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