maybe, just maybe

“The back­pack was the tar­get, not the student.”
—bul­ly­ing in­ci­dent, Om­a­ha
 

Good job Burke High School.

Now ableist school bul­ly apol­o­gists have a su­per neat new *log­ic* to add to such oth­er dis­mis­sive gems like “not all men” or “all lives mat­ter.”

I can’t wait to see how this one plays out in our fa­vorite circles: 

“The bi­cy­cle was the tar­get, not the kid pushed off it.”

“The ball was the tar­get, not the kid’s head it was thrown against.”

“Face­book Mes­sen­ger was the real tar­get, not the girl slut-shamed into sui­cide.”

(nor­mal­ly I’d facepalm here but imma head­desk today)

 

I’m sure had the back­pack be­longed to the pop­u­lar able-bod­ied quar­ter­back and not the vul­ner­a­ble hear­ing im­paired child, it also would have land­ed in the toilet. 

BE­CAUSE THOSE FUCK­ING BACK­PACKS, amirite??

Also, if any­one was won­der­ing why we are all end­less­ly ter­ri­ble and can­not to make any real so­cial progress *MAYBE, JUST MAYBE* it has to do with the fact that a pub­lic school just de­fend­ed bul­lies and dis­missed the very real pain and suf­fer­ing of a vic­tim who was tar­get­ed be­cause of a mi­nor phys­i­cal dif­fer­ence even with inar­guable proof of the act – that doesn’t sound at all fa­mil­iar or anything. 

Clear­ly we are still teach­ing our­selves to be fuck­ing hor­ri­ble at a young age.
 
 

—na­tal­ie michelle

Flom­mist Na­tal­ie Michelle does­n’t have a bio. She just rants. Copy­right © 2016 Na­tal­ie Michelle. Pic­tured: O’Ban­nion.

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