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  • I can't imagine -- don't want to imagine losing a child. I had no idea until I had a kid but... Nothing in the universe matters more to me than my kid and I would be destroyed forever if anything ever happened.

    To lose a kid (very likely) due to bullying? I can't imagine the blind rage mixed in with the universe shattering grief.

    What sick fucked world do we live in where school bullying turns into violence that turns into death? Just for being different from most? Jesus Christ. These psychopaths should be in jail getting intensive therapy to try to unfuck their twisted minds.

    This child could have lived a full life but instead because of fearful, hateful monsters, the kid is dead.

    Fuck Oklahoma and fuck this school and the parents of the murderers.

    It's only going to get worse if Trump gets back in power. As if it isn't bad enough now.

    Boy, girl, non binary, whatever WHO GIVES A FUCKING SHIT?! Mind your own goddamn business and don't be a fucking evil piece of shit. Let people fucking exist as they are.

    • My biggest fear is to outlive my daughter. And since she's queer (not trans, but queer), I worry about her being assaulted or even killed because of it, especially as people like Trump foster bigotry. Also, one of her closest friends is trans and I'm very worried about him. I know he's being bullied in school and he already has self-harm issues. Thankfully, his parents support his transition, but he's still not getting the support he needs and the school makes him use the girls bathroom and locker room. I hope he makes it through school okay. He's only 12 and he's already cutting himself, vaping and smoking weed.

      • I hope he finds the strength to get through this. Besides support from his family and having supportive friends, which no one should take for granted, there's overcoming the bullying and finally, the hardest of all, the inner conflict. Topple this with puberty's own ordeal, so everything gets even more confusing. But it's also the one task, that drops the most loot, if you solve it. There's nothing more rewarding than feeling inner peace, love yourself and coming of age strong and prosperous.

    • This is one of several reasons why I'm (secularly) homeschooling my kids.

    • What sick fucked world do we live in where school bullying turns into violence that turns into death?

      It probably happens more often than you think. Without the nonbinary angle and excuse to invoke bathroom bills this wouldn't have got nearly the attention that it did. In the US, most bullying related deaths are suicide and a couple hundred thousand kids get physically attacked by fellow students every year in addition (most recent number I'd found was a few years old and around 288k). If you piece together the various statistics, an estimate of around 3500 kids per year dying to bullying-related suicide is probably reasonable. Bullying-related homicide is harder to get a decent number on, but it's probably significantly lower.

      That they can say the autopsy showed CoD was not trauma from the attack but were awaiting toxicology and other ancillary results before naming an official CoD makes me curious if they suspect CoD is overdose and are waiting for results to confirm. I guess we'll see when the report is finished.

  • All the panic from Right-Wing cultists has real danger for people. I’m so sorry that people failed Nex. I hope people will be held accountable.

  • This is exactly what the GOP wants. It's only going to embolden them to spread this horseshit.

  • Still waiting for the day people take this seriously. Maybe just a couple more decades to go :/

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