{"id":7819,"date":"2010-10-03T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/theres-no-such-thing-as-cyberbullying\/"},"modified":"2010-10-03T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T16:37:00","slug":"theres-no-such-thing-as-cyberbullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/theres-no-such-thing-as-cyberbullying\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s No Such Thing as “Cyberbullying”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s No Such Thing as “Cyberbullying”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anil Dash writes:<\/p>\n

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The truth of it is, calling the cruelty that kids show to one another, based on race or gender identity or class or any other imaginary difference, by a name like “cyberbullying” is a cop-out. It’s a group of parents, school administrators and lazy reporters working together to shirk their own responsibility for the meanspirited, hateful, incomprehensible things their own kids do.<\/p>\n

And it’s a myth. There’s no such thing as cyberbullying. There’s only the cruelty in all of us, and the cowardice of making words to hide from it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He makes some very good points; I definitely agree that blaming technology is somewhat of a cop-out. \u00a0However, I think you can’t wholly ignore the fact that the anonymity afforded by a lot of the technology used to bully kids over the Internet plays a big part.<\/p>\n

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There’s No Such Thing as “Cyberbullying” Anil Dash writes: The truth of it is, calling the cruelty that kids show to one another, based on race or gender identity or class or any other imaginary difference, by a name like “cyberbullying” is a cop-out. It’s a group of parents, school administrators and lazy reporters working … <\/p>\n

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