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11-year-old Texas girl bullied over family’s immigration status takes her own life
(www.latintimes.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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I'm not blaming her?
Okay hear me out. I give this one single try. If you do not take your time to think about this and double down on your ignorance I will not further engage.
A little girl has been bullied to a point where she saw no other option than ending her own life. This is huge. It's one of our must fundamental instincts.
She was murdered. By her bullies, by the system, by everyone who enabled this to happen. She was murdered.
Questioning whether she was fully aware of the consequences shifts the blame from the offenders to her. You imply an overreaction. You imply that the griev, drama, and negative emotions are in no relation to what she has been through. You question whether she has reached out for help enough. You question whether she tried.
Rest assured: she did. https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/341671/9789290228578-eng.pdf?sequence=1
In defense of nuance, I think this take is pretty unreasonable. I understand if you want to call people out for victim-blaming, but it's very clear the commenter had no malicious intent by wondering about details about the tragedy. Why are we so eager for villains?
I don't really care whether you engage.
It's an absurdity to suggest that my comment shifts blame to an 11 year old victim.
Sure ok maybe some asshole Alex Jones type might try to say she over reacted, and they might do that by undermining her agency.
That doesn't mean that someone wondering about what an 11 year old's understanding of suicide might be, is doing anything other than grieving for our collective loss of innocence.
It's a perfectly reasonable thing to wonder in trying to process the death of someone so young.
Sire sounded like you where.