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Student who punched another student holding pro-ICE sign at Lake Zurich High School received 2-day suspension
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You absolutely should not have been punished for defending yourself in that situation; strangulation is attempt at murder. Did anything happen to the other kid?
Nope. Because schools and 'zero tolerance' policies protect abusers, not victims. by design. It's easier to punish the person lashing out and throwing punches vs someone deliberately trying to get you to kill yourself.
Just like we're seeing here in 2026 when my incident happened in 2003. I'm more pissed he didn't get anything rather than I got something. I happily took the suspension. I owned that with pride. It fell on a Friday so I had a 3 day weekend. My mom went into the school and tore the administration several new assholes. Fortunately after that I wasn't abused by him or anyone anymore other than faint insults like being called a 'fa**ot' by 6 dudes who were pants fabric away from touching dicks while I walked down the road holding hands with my new girlfriend.
I'm in my late 30s now. I've been married for 8 years and have two wonderful girlfriends in a poly relationship. He's divorced and barely gets to see his kids last I heard from friends back in my hometown. A quick Facebook search shows her with a new last name an kids with the new guy. So regardless of the past, I guess I won the life lottery.
You seem to speculate that your bullies were jealous of you because you are more successful with women than they are, or because they were secretly gay. In my case, we had very little parental supervision and everyone bullied one another to some degree. We used to play a game of tag where the person who got caught by 'it' would be tied to a tree and lashed with a switch, and the person tied to a tree had to escape in order to become 'it.'
edit: So, this is supposed to be a cautonary tale against not watching your kids, not "admitting to bullying people smarter than me." All kids in my grade played this game together. Now that I know what kind of social space I am in, I will no longer be sharing any personal information with this crowd. Thanks for letting me know that you're nuts, or at least a nonzero number of you.
I love how you admitted all of that, while I never suggested any of it. I never assumed anyone was 'secretly gay'. My point was my bullies were incredibly stupid people. They used basic insults because they thought it was funny regardless of the context. They were 6 dudes in close proximity calling a single man holding hands with a girl a 'fa**ot'. Not to mention I came out queer a few years ago so whatever you want to say about that won't make a lick of difference to me.
It's the intellectual significance, and lack thereof with the bullies. They're so stupid they just sling words to try to get a rise, not aware of the circumstance around it. No one with any critical thinking or intelligent thought would call a man with a woman on his arm a 'fa**ot' while the people slinging it are balls deep with other guys in a group huddle.
It's amazing how much you just admitted to being just that. A remarkably illiterate idiot who used to bully people smarter than you because you were a dumb insecure idiot.
What?
I didn't bully people smarter than me, I'm saying this is a game we all played.
... man, whatever. I'm sorry that happened.