Part of what makes this pink shirt story scream out AGENDA is that other solutions would have been so easy. I forgot about the rules at the voting booth one time and went there wearing my BUSH sweatshirt. What happened? Someone loaned me a jacket. If this kid were truly threatened, someone could loan him a shirt or a jacket for the rest of the day. He could have called home and asked if someone would bring him another shirt. Even without those immediate solutions, the problem would have been solved the very next day when he wore a different shirt. But no. We had to make a drama out of it and make sure the lesson gets out that it is no big deal for a guy to be a homosexual in this school. It is so obvious that I can't see why people fall for it. But oh they do.
Why should he have to change a complete innocent behavior just to satisfy a bunch of bullies? Is that the lesson we want to teach our kids- to just tuck tail and comply when someone threatens?
We could probably get OBL to stop issuing threats if we would just put our women in burqas. But, thankfully, we choose to stand up to bullies.
But no. We had to make a drama out of it and make sure the lesson gets out that it is no big deal for a guy to be a homosexual in this school. It is so obvious that I can't see why people fall for it. But oh they do.
Wait, I thought we established that this guy is not a homosexual for wearing a pink shirt. So where is the "homosexuality is okay" message in this story?
Why would trying to appease the bullies make them stop bully-ing?
This is the same BS the anti American war protesters spew. If only we stopped doing the things they hate us for (i.e. being the U.S) they’d stop targeting us.
Your suggestions would not have stopped the bullies. They would have merely switched to some other perceived weakness. It was never about the shirt or what it *might* mean. It was ALWAYS about perceived weakness. In-group vs out-group.
Once the majority acted to reverse the roles and make the bulliers the out-group and the pink shirts the in-group, the bullies were publically humilated in such a way that they will be looking for easier game else where.