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The problem is the skin head, not his victim's lack of discretion.
Agreed, but all people need to be taught the value of discression. It's nigh on impossible to change the mind of a bigot (See virus) but it is possible to teach Kids the necessary life skills to avoid becoming a victim.
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Yeah, but did you see how the gay kid was dressed? He was asking for it...
If i walk into a dance club dressed as a Metalhead, guess what i'm probably going to end up in a fight.
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"Growing a thick skin" sounds like something someone who wasn't picked on much would say.
No it's sounds like someone how grew up in a tough neighbourhood that required everyone to formulate a mechanism for not getting picked on, for most people thats a thick skin and a sence of humour.
People I grew up with may well have tried to bully me, I was one of 5 metalheads in a year of 200 and a roleplayer to boot but believe me they never sucseeded bedcause I always turned their teasing into a joke or witty comeback, amazingly enough I was popular, the guys who got upset and angry at remarks I found funny where snivelling wrecks by the fourth year, they most certainly where bullied because no-one taught them how to raise above it.
the idea that Homosexuals are somehow more bullied and less traumatised than Emo's or <Insert another fringe group here> Is laughable and no-one is going to create a school for them.
Best we leave all the kids in the one school and to quote Nobby
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schools should have a very low tolerance of prejudice, whether it's against race, coloUr, faith, sexual orientation, physical/sensory disability etc.
Isolation breeds fear, fear breeds hatred and hatred leads to people being beat up by scared people.