For a rare change, I'm going to discuss a current-events type of subject, but it's one that's near and dear to me, because I have first-hand experience with it. The topic for today, kids, is the issue of bullying, specifically in school.
The reason why you should know Sladjana Vidovic's name is because she is apparently the latest casualty in a long list of people who have commited suicide in the past couple of months because some little fucking assholes wouldn't leave her the hell alone. Because these little fucking assholes thought they had the right to constantly torment her because "she was different". Because nobody had the fucking balls to stand up and tell these little fucking assholes to back the hell off or they'd get a taste of their own medicine.
Unbelievably, Sladjana Vidovic is only one of four people at the same school that killed themselves this semester. All that I can say to that is what. the. fuck. I don't know what the hell they're doing out in Ohio, a nothing-special state if I've ever seen one, but they need to get their heads out of their asses and really look at what the hell is going on with their kids. Hell, the whole country needs to wake up, as far as I'm concerned.
The story is here, for anyone who might want a look. It'll sicken you. It did me.
The worst part of the entire story for me? When those little fucking assholes went up to Sladjana's coffin WHERE SHE LAY DEAD - and LAUGHED.
There is a special place in hell for those little douchebags. I hope they burn for all fucking eternity for doing that.
I have personal experience, sadly, with school-based bullying. I have been shoved into a locker with the door closed on me, I've had my hair set on fire, I've been deliberately tripped on the bus, I could name a whole bunch of things that happened to me. But at least I had a respite from it in the privacy of my own bedroom. These kids today don't even have that luxury - thanks to Facebook and Twitter and the web. Jesus, I can only imagine what would happen to me today. I'd be dead, outright, do not pass 'Go' or collect 200 dollars. I'd have found a way to blow my brains out.
When the fuck are we going to accept that people are different? When are we going to not only accept it, but celebrate those differences? Jesus, the world would be so fucking boring if everyone were homogenized and cookie-cutter. It takes all kinds to make life rich and interesting - black, white, old, young, tall, short, fat, thin, American or European or African. Who the hell are we as a society to make certain people outcasts?
Isn't this what Hitler did to the Jewish people? Ostracized them, bullied them, eventually caused massive destruction of them? Tried to exterminate them from the face of the earth?
The answer is simple: if you don't like someone because of (fill in your trivial, idiotic reason here) - leave them the fuck alone, mind your own business, and go on your merry way. You can't make it easier than that. You don't like her because she has an accent? Don't fucking talk to her, then. You don't like someone because they're gay? That's your own stupid prejudice, so live with it, but you have no right to impose your ignorance on someone else.
It's easy for me to sit here now and say this, when at 14, 15, 16 I would have been utterly crushed by hateful actions like this. I cannot imagine what these kids now are going through. It must be beyond horrific.
A refrain of Depeche Mode's "People Are People" comes to mind when I think of this topic.
It's a simple matter of respect for the human race, which I fear that we're all beginning to lose. I don't mind telling you that I am utterly scared of the world I'm going to live in, in twenty or thirty years' time. These little brats have no respect for ANYBODY. They don't care who they hurt or what they say or what they do - as long as they get their self-gratification, their "it's all about me" feeling, what THEY want - the hell to with everyone else.
I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't be too fucking proud of going up to a dead girl's coffin and mocking her, because life has a way of biting you in the ass when you least expect it, and no one knows that better than I do.
I hope those little bitches get their asses CHEWED by Karma. I sincerely fucking hope so.
And Sladjana's father, who cries because he "no longer hears the music"... on the day his daughter's murderers get theirs, that'll be the sweetest fucking tune he ever heard. I guarantee it.
1 comment:
believe me.. this whole think pisses me off. i went through relentless bullying in high school, and sometimes i look back and i'm thankful at that time there were no social network sites or texting or it probably would have taken me over the edge.
what sickens me too, is there are assholes that post negative comments even on the memorial pages of these poor teens that the families set up.
been watching all this bullying stuff all week on talk shows, especially Dr. Phil, who basically says.. and i agree.. if you are a bystander, you are just as guilty. kids are so ready to run their mouths for something negative, why not run your mouth and fight the bullying?
anywho, i'm looking forward to watching the town meeting Anderson Cooper is putting on tonight on CNN about this very subject. thank you for keeping it in light, because it's something that isn't going to go away.
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