Drew Downs

Tag: bullying

  • When our need to protect the powerful actually preserves division

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    When our need to protect the powerful actually preserves division

    We treat our divisions like conundrums: unsolvable and eternal. They’re neither. We just need to take their depth more seriously.

  • Gamergate and making the world safe for bullying

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    Gamergate and making the world safe for bullying

    I think I figured out what has been bothering me about ‪#‎gamergate‬. Here’s what I know in an oversimplified narrative: 1. Several journalist gamers (virtually all women) were victims of doxing and bullying online for writing about video games as if it were the mature, mainstream medium that it has become over the last 20 years.…

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    How to know when someone is lying to you

    There is a simple test for dishonesty. You’ve been told to look for nonverbal cues: the other person is nervous or doesn’t blink. That stuff. You’ve even been told how to catch a lie in an email. But I’ve got a better measuring stick for dishonesty. When you are talking with someone, notice whether or not their sharing…

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    Are you paid millions to bully?

    Following the bizarre bullying case out of Miami is becoming as absurd as Greg Schiano’s self-destruction in Tampa Bay, but I’m left with a more chilling and disturbing idea from the coverage: that we seem to have the wrong idea of how to respond to it. This isn’t a sports blog, though I do indulge…

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    School Encourages Homophobic Humiliation as Student Punishment

    This is absolutely disgusting. School Encourages Homophobic Humiliation as Student Punishment. As the article’s author writes: And how will the principal protect his students from bullying each other now that he’s just condoned it? This is the crux of education, after all, that we learn by example. And the example the principle has just set…

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    Telling Secrets: “Three hundred kids is 300 too many”

    Telling Secrets: “Three hundred kids is 300 too many”.  Go check this out.  A great post about bullying and honesty and integrity.