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"BuzzFeed News reviewed more than 50 reports of school bullying since the election and found that kids nationwide are using Trumps words to taunt their classmates. If the president can say those things, why cant they?"
Source: Buzz Fed News
Donald Trumps campaign and election have added an alarming twist to school bullying, with white students using the president's words and slogans to bully Latino, Middle Eastern, black, Asian, and Jewish classmates. In the first comprehensive review of post-election bullying, BuzzFeed News has confirmed more than 50 incidents, across 26 states, in which a K-12 student invoked Trumps name or message in an apparent effort to harass a classmate during the past school year.
In the parking lot of a high school in Shakopee, Minnesota, boys in Donald Trump shirts gathered around a black teenage girl and sang a portion of The Star Spangled Banner, replacing the closing line with and the home of the slaves. On a playground at an elementary school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, third-graders surrounded a boy and chanted Trump! Trump! Trump!
On a school bus in San Antonio, Texas, a white eighth-grader said to a Filipino classmate, You are going to be deported. In a classroom in Brea, California, a white eighth-grader told a black classmate, Now that Trump won, you're going to have to go back to Africa, where you belong. In the hallway of a high school in San Carlos, California, a white student told two biracial girls to go back home to whatever country you're from. In Louisville, Kentucky, a third-grade boy chased a Latina girl around the classroom shouting build the wall! In a stadium parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida, after a high school football game, white students chanted at black students from the opposing school: Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!
The first school year of the Donald Trump presidency left educators struggling to navigate a climate where misogyny, religious intolerance, name-calling, and racial exclusion have become part of mainstream political speech.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/kids-are-quoting-trump-to-bully-their-classmates?bftw&utm_term=.yl2nYP4a5#.dcvDVaZkx
bresue
(1,007 posts)But yet, self-righteous religious nuts like Robertson and Bakker (who was jailed because of bad behavior) advocate this idiot!!!
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,163 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,357 posts)It's also not hard to teach kids that adults sometimes speak in ways that kids shouldn't.
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)We need this chapter in our history to end as soon as possible.
WAKE THE F*CK UP DEMOCRATS AND UNIFY. One common cause: ANYTHING TO GET THE COUNTRY BACK.
Sorry about the caps guys, I'm angry, sad and frustrated.
treestar
(82,383 posts)and decide they just don't want this country to be this way after all. Meaner, stupider and more narrow minded.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)for passing on the deplorable behavior to their kids.
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Initech
(100,081 posts)Like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan for instance. They need their asses kicked now.
Initech
(100,081 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)kids don't watch Fox News and keep up with FF45's tweets and watch his rallies.
I am guessing most of them pick it up from the parents who do.
And they don't use slogans and threats that aren't intimidating or threatening.
They're rewarded with the response. No response, what's left is the reward from their peers. That eventually gets old, unless they form their own little self-perpetuating group immune to outside influence and convinced that they and only they are right.