Posted on 01/26/2010 11:55:01 AM PST by Sopater
While police in South Hadley, Mass., investigate whether cyber bullying was to blame for the suicide last week of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince, the teenager who had recently emigrated from Ireland suffered a final indignity disparaging remarks believed to be posted by classmates to a Facebook page created in her memory.
Prince died on Jan. 14 after a rough freshman year. Friends and school officials told MyFoxBoston.com that Prince had been picked on and taunted since moving to Massachusetts last fall.
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People who blame the victims is kinda what psychopaths do. Have we seen this over and over, in the form of rape to mass murders like Columbine, 9/11, Fort Hood, etc. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold, Seung-Hui Cho, Lori Drew, and Gertrude Baniszewski engage in blaming the victim. They claimed they or someone they hold dear to was being victimized and they had to retaliate.
The sad fact is that we live a culture that makes people feel more entitled, an entitlement culture.
I certainly think that’s tied up in the whole bundle.
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