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My advice to every bullying victim right now is: Do not retaliate. Sit back, take it in, let’s see how it goes. Because if you retaliate, there will be escalation.
It is incredible that Bessent would say this.
Yes, let's just accept being bullied. /s Incredibly shortsighted.
So, if Bessent takes off in utter humiliation, I hope he does not expect any support or sympathy from the masses.
My boot is on your testicles. Do not retaliate. Sit back, take it in, let's see how it goes. Because if you retaliate, there will be escalation.
In this scenario, it may actually good advice - we don’t have one victim here. We have a bully that’s been successfull enough that he’s trying to bully the whole school. While he could never stand up to a united school, you can’t control whether all the victims will stand up.
However bullying everyone is unsustainable. Nobody has time for that. Any victim that stands up too tall will get the bully’s focused attention, while victims that kind of roll with it will be quickly forgotten about and ignored. The most important thing for the bully is to say “I win”, and it doesn’t hurt you for him to say that
I experienced considerable extremely violent bullying at one stage in my life.
Here is what I learned: turning the other cheek doesn't work. A baseball bat does. Escalation wasn't a risk, it was the solution. It just depends on who's doing it and how decisively.
For sure, but all the other vulnerable kids kept their heads down and were just grateful that they weren’t getting the same attention you were