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[–] [email protected] 113 points 10 months ago (28 children)

Who fucking gets bullied in college?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 10 months ago (3 children)

People who didn't get bullied enough in high school and are usually outspoken libertarians.

[–] johker216 96 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Outspoken libertarians aren't going to be bullied in college - outspoken anything in college generally leads to people ignoring you. College students that think they're being bullied most likely attribute normal behavior to bullying - just like incels treat normal human interactions as impediments to getting laid.

[–] StorminNorman 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Your first sentence is somewhat correct, I'd argue that dealing with any kind of absolute like you have done is incredibly dumb though. Of course being outspoken can get you bullied. It may be less likely in a university/college setting, but it's definitely gonna happen. And your second second sentence is so wrong it's almost comical. Bullying at a tertiary education level is so common that I guarantee there's a bunch of studies done on it and probably a wiki page for it too.

Edit: lol, yep, shit loads of studies (and there's plenty more to be found than just these few), and the wiki exists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

College students that think they’re being bullied most likely attribute normal behavior to bullying

This. The specific problem my alma mater ran into was all the conservative students saying they were getting bullied, and when asked how they were bullied, the response was basically "People disagreed with me and now they don't want to hang out with me!"

Sometimes I wonder if they'd actually been bullied, if their tune would've been different...

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