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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Good for you, here’s the thing though they’ve done studies on the long term affects of bullying. It’s not just about standing up to the one bully. That treats the symptom while leaving a rotting core. And all your chanting of “don’t let words hurt you” has resulted in generations of psychologically scarred human beings.
Oh good you’re teaching self defense and continuing to instill the idea into people that when bad things happen to people they are to blame. You realize this literally perpetuates the situation because even if the people you teach are never in those positions they now carry the nugget of “wisdom” thanks to the class that the victim should have done something to not have had whatever happen to them.
“It’s better to not be in the situation” no it’s better for the cause of the situation, the bully or criminal, to not create the situation. What you are doing is victim blaming.
In these situations doing what you’re doing allows the situation to continue to happen because you’re forever treating the symptoms rather than the cause.
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Nice straw man argument. Let me put this in nice capital letters so you can't keep pretending I'm saying something I'm not.
WE DO NOT TEACH THAT IF SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS TO YOU, YOU ARE TO BLAME. WE TEACH THAT IT PEOPLE PICK ON YOU, IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT AND THEY IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM.
There, see. That's not so hard to understand if you stop sticking your fingers in your ears and chant "teaching methods to avoid being picked on is blaming the victim".
It's no different than teaching safe driving techniques, the safe ways to avoid getting computer viruses or any other life skill.