Whatever the SJWs are doing
now surely is a beast of its own. They are bullies too. In its purest, the idea of social justice is not bad. People who bastardize the idea of social justice by overreacting and using it for their moral grandstanding is where they've earned the added and mockingly used "warrior" status. They've gained power and they are using the same tactics back at people who they think are responsible for any wrongdoings towards them. The problem is that they have lost tolerance to everything and they think people are guilty by association and that's why it's a horror show today.
I think a lot of people don't understand what you mean and the ones who would be bullying the way you accept bullying don't understand it either and quite probably would also be bullying in more harmful ways. It's not as if kids always know the difference. Sure, you can now think about it better when you're an adult, but when you are a kid, it's a completely different thing. Now, you could use your knowledge as an adult to be healthy about it and realize there shouldn't be a zero tolerance towards mocking and stuff like that. And I think that's what you are aiming at here, and I think that's ok.
What comes to someone with a My Little Pony backpack, who the hell
really cares what someone uses to carry their stuff in?
I don't think the problem is in that dude existing or people accepting that. Eccentrism is ok. The problem is that people have started to give unnecessary value to individuality and uniqueness. While it should be people looking at a weird kid and say dude you are weird even out loud and towards the kid's face, it's been more about people starting to raise kids like that to a pedestal. And I think that's because people have been bullied and they are trying to correct it by pre-emptively overcorrecting everything. The problem is that instead of people just saying "let that dude be" they are telling "stop it, he's special."
If you think more bullying will fix that I think you would be just adding to the problem instead of helping it.
I think the world needs more of the Christian thought that we are all assholes. If a bully bullies you, he's an asshole. And if you got bullied, that doesn't make you any less of an asshole either.
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I almost asked if you were bullied or were a bully too but deleted it because I wasn't sure if it would mean much.
Anyway, sure I've been bullied. Not too bad though and no, never for anything even remotely close to that My Little Pony situation
My way to deal with it was trying to be as much of a friend with the bullies and using jokes to distract them. It worked surprisingly well, but it sure would've been better to live without the sometimes unbearable stress. I started to entertain the thought of killing myself when I was 11 because it was sometimes way too stressful to go to school and in hindsight I really wasn't even bullied even nearly as much as some others were and I just have to imagine what suicidal thoughts some others must've had. "Luckily" right at that time the heart problem that had been with me since birth but what wasn't known by anyone yet showed its first signs, and when I 100% surely in my mind thought night after night I'm really going to die it kinda gave perspective on things and I got rid of whatever suicidal thoughts I had and carried on.
But I know people who were bullied for some socially more "unacceptable" reasons. It always, and I mean ALWAYS wasn't just about telling someone to correct whatever odd thing they were doing but it was always an excuse to go beyond it and do a lot worse things. Kids don't understand what you might understand the difference between "bullying" and bullying is. More often that not the eccentric or weird or socially abnormal characteristics people might have are used as an excuse and not as an actual reason where if they just corrected that "fault" in themselves things would be ok. If there aren't any super weird people around, the people who would be inclined to "bully" the super weird kid will look for whoever fits in the least. Then it will become about whatever idiotic things they happen to come up with, be it glasses, curly hair, wrong colored clothes, wrong brand clothes, whatever.
Maybe this discussion should be in a thread of its own as I think an "unpopular opinion" thread should be about people being able to say an "unpopular thing" without someone trying to correct them or debate them, so I think I'm not giving this thread and your opinion justice by going through your posts line by line.