Bullying, to me, is the use of power such as size, wealth, or authority, in ways meant to coerce or diminish another. This can be true of using the power of facts to bully others into supporting a perspective, or abandoning their own. Presenting an argument is one thing, but browbeating someone into acquiescence is also bullying, especially if several people are doing it at the same time. I'm as guilty of it as anyone- especially when folks are arguing against rights for marginalized peoples- but it's not right either. You win hearts and minds, you don't bully them into submission.
If this were in the PolSink I'd have a lot more to say on the matter that is demonstrated by the behavior of leaders, but I am refraining.
Surprised this post didn't get any play, the actual definition of bullying. It requires a position of power, which to be fair, power can come in the form of 10,000 opinions against 1 opinion, but that has to be weighed against reality, because it's not bullying if you take a position on something that harms people and a mass of other people give you shit for that. That's just you being a piece of shit and other people providing socially responsible resistance.
Society would be an absolute dystopian shithole if everything harmful went unfettered, regardless of law. And Ricky is also correct about bullying needing to be inescapable, but there are practical limits to that too, like being expected to change schools is outside of what most people would consider reasonable, yet not logging in to some regional niche forum, that's obviously incredibly escapable.
As it applies today, what we see far more often than not is big ol' narcissistic crybabies thinking that bullying is just whenever their feelings are hurt, because they're unable to comprehend anything other than their own feelings, and nobody's a bigger crybaby today than the people that say things like "fuck your feelings!" and "don sturt nun!" and all that other fake alpha tuff gai nonsense. Really they're just mad at any opposition to what they're doing, and what they're doing, ironically, is usually something akin to bullying, or a support of bullying (same thing really).
It's hilarious that the only time we see reparations is when bitch ass white guys in positions of power gets their kewt lil feelings hurt.....for being bullies. Today, the bullying kind of gets a pass, even for our bigotboo's in the world, but giving a bully some shit for it gets scorn. It's the trademark of a pussy, they're only willing to be dicks to protect an asshole, but not to push back against the assholes. Basically a microcosm of many regional niche forums, a whole forum can be ruined by just one shart.
