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"Oh, you think there is a good reason for a young girl to be bullied?"

That's an asinine interpretation of my comment. In the same article, there was a thorough description of why a young boy was bullied - his bad teeth and eyeglasses - yet there was no explanation of why the girl was bullied. The "Five W's" of journalism - who, what, where, when, and WHY - still apply. I'm pretty sure that if the girl was being bullied for being LGBTQ, the article would have mentioned it, and my suspicion was that this might have been black-on-white bullying due to the racial composition of the school and the fact that the reason for the bullying was not mentioned. My point was not to establish legitimate reasons for bullying but to raise the issue of possible media bias.