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Bullies Are Being Targeted All the Time, Right?
Adult bullying is about perceiving slights when they aren't necessarily there and then retaliating against them. I mean, supremisist ideologies function like that, too. The great replacement white people are under attack. The groumers attacking children, like the bully. And at the same time, people who are legitimately being attacked are likely going to react as if they're being attacked. There is a bit of a kind of determinism that there. i feel like having compassion for people who do lash out habitually for various reasons, but their hearts are in the right place makes a lot of sense too. Sometimes.