You had to figure something was up when Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t date her.

So would the Gamergate trolls not count as bullies, because they were anonymous sources making online death threats from far away? None of them individually had more power than their targets, after all...

This reasoning sounds really specious, both here and in the article. It’s a distinction without a difference. It…

I’ve also seen benevolent ‘powerful’ people bullied by those with ‘less’ power than they.

I just think your definition writes off quite a bit if bullying.

...but this piece is just a masturbatory, excessively long pseudo-think piece...

Yeah, personally, I think the definition Jia presents of bullying is way off. Even if it IS something you could easily change—say a kid gets seriously and mercilessly made fun of for, like, wearing uncool clothes, for example (and it’s not because they can’t afford other clothes). That’s a totally…

Well, I think part of the problem is that it’s hard to think of ANYTHING that’s not at least theoretically changeable/controllable.

This.

I used to think that (and my relationship as an Odd Future fan is endlessly complicated) until I started hearing about cases where people were stalked from place to place online. Whenever they deleted one facebook page, that one was bombarded, whenever they closed and opened a new instagram page, that one was…

Fuck Tyler

If there’s a more obnoxious way to say what you’re saying, I have yet to see it.

There’s also a numbers issue. Roy may be far more powerful than some Beyoncé idealizing 15 year old in Omaha, but when you multiply that 15 year old times thousands and send them all after one person, it takes on a much different tone. If not with Roy than certainly with her daughter.

“person in question cannot control”. Not really. Tons of people are bullied for things they can control (or are often controllable) such as weight, religion, how many partners they have or haven’t had, who they associate with, etc. not that jumping on someone’s tweet is in and of itself what I would consider to be…

Agreed on that. I think this was an interesting piece, and there were many parts of it that succinctly capture complex issues: “But I know from online haters, and it seems to me that the “real issue” is never “cyberbullying” as much as it is the specific (and more interesting) circumstances of every case at hand.”

Sounds like he may not have had a motorcycle endorsement, which, ok, he should be cited for. And it sounds like he was. Now tell me why that means it was ok for that old inbred hick to knock both him and his girlfriend off the bike.

Yeah, I got sick of reading them...

Ya fuck you too. I hope to catch you doing something mildly illegal so I can run ya ass ova as well. What kind of society do you want?

Already happened in the original article. Comments were full of idiots pointing fingers at the rider because “OMG THAT’S ILLEGAL.”

Nevermind that it was a perfectly safe pass on a straightaway with plenty of visibility, past a guy who was intentionally going well under the speed limit to antagonize them.

If you think a minor traffic infraction remotely justifies attempted murder: Fuck You.