Rage of the Day
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- locustsloth0
For one, cotton, you can take any situation you hear about and find another, more heart wrenching, more unjust situation more worthy of attention. So playing the "there's more worthy causes" card is pointless (though in this case I have to agree that the volume of money going to this one person is puzzling)
Secondly, I haven't seen any comment saying that these little morons are blameless. Obviously these kids should have more respect for any human than they displayed in the video. It's just that she shares a small amount of the blame because she was not fulfilling her obligation as designated disciplinarian on the bus. Much larger portions of blame belong to the parents of these kids who either internalized the acceptance of belittling other people or were absent enough to not recognize this behavior in their kids, and to the school administration who put her on the bus rather than someone who has been trained to deal with kids, but who would have cost more to pay. But again, by far, the overwhelming majority of the blame lies on these kids and I can't fathom anyone arguing otherwise
- "did not fulfill her obligations as designated disciplinarian. "74LEO
- ernexbcn0
Almost half a million dollars now...
- qoob0
Breaking, it was all a scam, she and the kids are boarding a plane with the money..
- detritus0
Well now, I've no idea what this reaction says about society.
I think less of it than the people who've thought it apt to donate money. That much I'm sure.
- monospaced0
still don't get the money thing... what's it for?
- surgery? therapy?monospaced
- I guess she doesn't need to be the "bus lady" anymoremonospaced
- It was to send her on a nice vacation. Now it seems to be her retirement fund.i_monk
- CALLES0
she will always be "fat bus lady" in this forum
- CALLES0
the whole bullying thing has a very weird double standard. shame if a kid in school does it that has not developed "mature" human interactions. But some of the biggest stars in Tv and Movies are bullies... like simon from american idol and ect ect
- Simon is more direct... plus people also put themselves in front of him for TV. A little different.jfletcher
- ...but I agree that there is a weird overlap in what we say and what we do.jfletcher
- kids aren't adults, and adults have plenty of avenues to get back at bullies – kids don't, and they kill themselves to escape it.i_monk
- i know. but must be confusing for a kid that watch adults doing it on the main stage and then they cannotCALLES
- i_monk0
It's too bad the homeless and kids who can't get scholarships don't have kickstarters.
It's wonderful to the point of excess what people are doing for this woman, but there are probably a hundred people just in her hometown whose lives would be revolutionized if that money were divided up among them.
- such is lifeernexbcn
- Agreed. It's nice, but it's fallen in her lap. I'd love to see her give some of it to a worthy cause. Anti-bullying programs, etc.Gucci
- I'd like to see her take out a billboard campaign with 'shopped images of her tormentors being fucked by donkeysdetritus
- donkeysdetritus
- LEAVE DONKEYS OUT OF THISCALLES
- biusness0
Came in late to this one...
What a fantastic exercise in brainwashing.Uniquely American.
What other nation would find it appropriate to donate MONEY to a woman bullied by some kids? A complete and utter non sequitur.
Nobody is arguing the tragedy of the bullying, but this ridiculous cult of donation has now even extended to the guy who SETUP HER DONATION PAGE.
Profoundly uncomfortable from every direction.
The Land of the Free.
- It was started by a Canadian... or so I read.i_monk
- Canadians are American since they are in North America. Duh.monospaced
- /sarcasmmonospaced
- I believe it was a Canadian reddit user who started the fund...ETM
- Let's not nitpick, this is an American phenomenon head to tailbiusness
- As in...the MediaLand Circusbiusness
- With donations coming from all over the world.ETM
- Jimbo820
Has anything been heard from the parents of the scrots involved? Any comment at all?
- CALLES0
from the news
All bullied bus monitor Karen Klein wanted was an apology. Now she's getting that ... and then some.
Police say the four boys who tormented the 68-year-old on a school bus in upstate New York earlier this week have taken responsibility for their actions. They are also saying they're sorry.
"I feel really bad about what I did," one said in a statement to CNN. "I wish I had never done those things. If that had happened to someone in my family, like my mother or grandmother, I would be really mad at the people who did that to them."
Another said, "When I saw the video I was disgusted and could not believe I did that. I am sorry for being so mean and I will never treat anyone this way again."
The video of the seventh-graders cursing, taunting and physically threatening a crying Klein has become a rallying point against bullying. It has also prompted an overwhelming outpouring of support for the longtime school bus worker.
An online campaign to fund a vacation for Klein had grown to nearly $500,000 by Friday morning, far surpassing the initial $5,000 goal. Max Sidorov, the Toronto man who started the fund two days ago, said he did so partly because he was bullied himself as a child.
"Maybe we can send her on a great, early retirement," Sidorov told the Associated Press.
Then Anderson Cooper surprised the grandmother of eight on CNN Thursday night with an all-expenses paid trip for nine people to Disneyland from Southwest Airlines. The Walt Disney Company made the same offer for Disney World.
"I want to thank everybody for so much kindness," Klein told the Rochester Democrat and Herald.
But not all of the reaction has been positive. School officials in Greece, N.Y. and the boys who bullied Klein have received a barrage of threatening messages. Police stepped up patrols near the teens' homes.
"We have a cellphone of one of the boys and he's received more than 1,000 missed calls and more than 1,000 text messages threatening him," Capt. Steve Chatteron said. "Threats to overcome threats do no good."
Klein issued a plea for the madness to end.
"I feel kinda bad for them and their families because of what's going on," she said. "They're being harassed terribly and I don't like that. I don't want any harm to come to them."
Humbling words given the week she's had.
- CALLES0
she probably would have been happy with a burger
i keed
- Jimbo820
Interesting that the parents have stayed completely out of it and it's the kids themselves making the statements.
- That's to be expected. These kids are assholes because their parents stay out of their lives and don't raise them.i_monk
- Kids are shits with or without the help of their parents. It's society and it's always been that way.cotton
- I wasn't a shit at that age.i_monk
- Disagree with you cotton. Parents have an influence, good or bad.Jimbo82
- Not true. The father of one of the kids gave an interview. Google it.Gucci
- Post it GucciJimbo82
- http://www.youtube.c…Gucci
- Not the one I saw, but the same dad. Stand up guy who didn't deserve it (on the surface).Gucci
- ukit20
Why all the awareness of bullying all of a sudden? Not that it's a bad thing at all but it seems like it was never discussed in the media until recently.
Are people getting meaner, more sensitive, or is it just the trend of the moment?
- Bullying has been an issue in the media for a few years now.i_monk
- I blame the internetmonospaced
- Jimbo820
The media enjoy a good trend, or flavour of the month.
Haven't heard anything about pedophiles for a while. You couldn't move for them a few years back.
- Paedophilia was never the newsmaker here like it was in the UK.i_monk
- The press had a field day outing paedos, until a pediatrician had his house burnt down by a yobJimbo82
- Sandusky?cotton
- The new one is cannibalism.Gucci
- Sandusky is a single example. The UK press was rife with pedo stories for years.i_monk
- i_monk0
This still makes my blood boil 6 years later:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui…tl;dr – Megan is friends with a girl. That girl's mother sets up a MySpace account posing as a boy named Josh. "Josh" and Megan chat and become friends. "Josh" starts to bully Megan about how she treats her friends (the girl, "Josh"'s daughter). Megan kills herself.
- I was just reading this...similar case
http://en.wikipedia.…ukit2
- I was just reading this...similar case
- 74LEO0
I hope some kid bullies me i need a half a million dollar vacation!
- albums0
I don't understand why anyone would complain or judge those donating to her. Charity is personal. Whether someone wants to rescue kittens or make another human's life a bit brighter, why waste your time judging people who obviously don't mind giving to a stranger?
It's easy to support this woman because of the A to B rationality of it. You can see directly what the money goes to. For this woman to forget the kids.
I don't think donating has as much to do with the financial as the satisfaction that you're one of the thousands that have responded to this for her. Even if everyone only gave a dollar, she'd still have nearly 25 grand.
That number of supporters means more than the $20 each they're giving.
that said...
- "For this woman to forget the kids"...with cash. Superb logic. This entire situation is a fucking tragedy, end to endbiusness
- There needs to be a snappy name for what's happening here. The feel-good, mass donation to an arbitrary cause that's gone viralbiusness
- Overcompensation.
i_monk - The goal was a vacation for her. They can't help how many people wanted to donate.ETM
- Based on what's known of her, she'd likely donate a good chunk back to the school district anyway.ETM