April 7th, 2010
Podcast 15: Wondering why we turn on victims so easily.
Podcast 15:
Wondering why we turn on victims so easily
Belated press attention to a January 2010 student suicide is based on the special cruelty teens employed after the girl’s death. What does this say about us and our society? A Gary Namie podcast.
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You have hit the nail on the head. I can recall, as it is hard to forget, that at the time of my brother’s death a number of boys in the immediate neighborhood, 1/2 dozen to be exact, to varying and greater degrees of severity, took it upon themselves to mentally abuse me as a means of exorcising their own neurotic conflicts. One of the ring leaders, to his credit, often admitted as much over time, as they weren’t really getting any kind of reaction from me. I told myself at the time that there was something wrong with them, that I wasn’t responsible for their behavior and that I shouldn’t take anything that was being said with the intention of injuring me, personally. That strategy did not serve me well on an emotional basis. I will add that over time I have come to realize that when someone tries to chip away at me what they are doing in general, and unknown to themselves, is sharpening an ax.