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In reply to the discussion: I am so mad right now: What happened in my daughters class today (UPDATE) [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)in both directions:
"Some people just cannot come to grips with the fact that people different than them in gender, sexual orientation and race can be just as smart, mean, hurt as anyone on this planet."
That fact knows no color/sex line and if I think it does, then I'd be a racist or a sexist.
That said, my basic principle is that responsibility for what happens lies wherever the majority of the power, by even the slimmest of margins, happens to be in a given situation.
In a recent experience my son had in a training situation, in which a member of the larger ethnic group emotionally bullied an obviously vulnerable member of the significantly smaller ethnic group, it was the responsibility of someone in the larger ethnic/social group to do something appropriate to intervene. That didn't happen and now another, vulnerable, young lady is now un-employed.
True story.