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demmiblue

(36,865 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 12:20 PM Jun 2017

Kids Are Quoting Trump To Bully Their Classmates And Teachers Dont Know What To Do About It

"BuzzFeed News reviewed more than 50 reports of school bullying since the election and found that kids nationwide are using Trump’s words to taunt their classmates. If the president can say those things, why can’t they?"

Source: Buzz Fed News



Donald Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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

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Kids Are Quoting Trump To Bully Their Classmates And Teachers Dont Know What To Do About It (Original Post) demmiblue Jun 2017 OP
And did we not predict this....? bresue Jun 2017 #1
We have a deranged asshole in the White House. n/t RKP5637 Jun 2017 #2
Young deplorables doing their thing. Ace Rothstein Jun 2017 #3
This headline is odd; teachers are certainly capable of telling kids not to bully other kids. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2017 #4
Very sad stuff. awesomerwb1 Jun 2017 #5
I hope people will get tired of this treestar Jun 2017 #6
Their parents are the ones who need the paddle to the butt muntrv Jun 2017 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author TeamPooka Jun 2017 #8
We need to do the same thing to the bullies in government! Initech Jun 2017 #11
Wrong! Fake news! Sad. Initech Jun 2017 #9
Unless things have changed since I was a kid.... Thomas Hurt Jun 2017 #10
Yup. Igel Jun 2017 #13
they have learned from their nasty role models :( luvMIdog Jun 2017 #12

bresue

(1,007 posts)
1. And did we not predict this....?
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 12:25 PM
Jun 2017

But yet, self-righteous religious nuts like Robertson and Bakker (who was jailed because of bad behavior) advocate this idiot!!!

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,357 posts)
4. This headline is odd; teachers are certainly capable of telling kids not to bully other kids.
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 12:29 PM
Jun 2017

It's also not hard to teach kids that adults sometimes speak in ways that kids shouldn't.

awesomerwb1

(4,268 posts)
5. Very sad stuff.
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 12:33 PM
Jun 2017

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)
6. I hope people will get tired of this
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 12:40 PM
Jun 2017

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)
7. Their parents are the ones who need the paddle to the butt
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 12:43 PM
Jun 2017

for passing on the deplorable behavior to their kids.

Response to demmiblue (Original post)

Initech

(100,081 posts)
11. We need to do the same thing to the bullies in government!
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 12:54 PM
Jun 2017

Like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan for instance. They need their asses kicked now.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
10. Unless things have changed since I was a kid....
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 12:53 PM
Jun 2017

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.

Igel

(35,320 posts)
13. Yup.
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 04:02 PM
Jun 2017

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.

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