Right, it’s like how comprehensive preventative care; physicals, nutrition workshops, yoga/fitness groups, smoking cessation can lower instances of chronic medical conditions and catastrophic care like surgery, nursing home, hospice etc.

I wonder what is this (the reaction to the video and the blessings that he has been receiving) is teaching him, as well?

Also, you pronounced “soda” wrong.

Hahaha damnnnn! Get em!

go fuck yourself larry.

I hate to say that I saw this kind of thing coming, but I saw this kind of thing coming. This was a classic “we regret to inform you that the duck is racist”-type moment.

I know it will never go away entirely. But I am hoping that we can someday not be overwhelmingly consumed by it.

How did the Trumpbots find this article so quickly?

People commenting on this are 100% missing the point of the whole article. The irony of the situation. We are supposed to feel sorry for this kid who is being bullied (which we DO) but we are somehow not supposed to acknowledge the fact that his mother is basically pimping him out for donations, while instilling…

Why is this not cross posted on sites that people actually visit? I feel like this should be bigger news.

I don’t know this kid, maybe he is innocent, and in which case, shouldn’t be bullied.

Sigh... probably fucking never. Tribalism and fear and hatred of the “other” is human nature. I mean, maybe we’ll EVENTUALLY be able to do away with the confederacy bullshit (if the US survives that long), but it will be replaced by something else.

Absolutely. I can’t stand 95% of parenting posts because they are all so clearly about the parent seeking praise/sympathy/whatever. Even the ones with parents showing off the cool costumes they made for their kids kind of make my skin crawl. I mean, this is going to be the first thing that shows up when people google…

At the risk of sounding like an insensitive jerk....

After about the tenth retweet, I just started to assume something like this was true. It just reeks of scam from the start. If not a scam, then clueless parenting. I mean, if your kid is getting bullied at school, then posting a video online of them crying is definitely going to help them out right?

Heard the accent, thought Tennessee, and my immediate reaction was, possible racists, please don’t be. Please be true to the idea that it’s wrong to demean people different from you.

I saw a clip of the video on the news this afternoon and all could think is ‘get the fuck off the internet with this.’ Not because bullying isn’t an issue but because I hate parents parading their kids’ pain on social media. I hate it with this, I hate it when parents film ‘punishment videos’, and I hate it when…

Just ugh all around. Looks like the bullied boy lives with bullies.

People should get there refunds... not exactly sure what the purpose of the gofundme was to begin with. It’s not like they were going to use the money to start educating on bullying or for lawyers.