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<\/a><\/p>\nThese are both absolute garbage.<\/p>\n On the top one:<\/p>\n First, while it would be nice if solving this problem was as simple as having lunch with the weird kid, it’s not.\u00a0 School shooters don’t fall neatly into any specific social group.\u00a0Much was made of the how the shooters as Columbine were outcasts.\u00a0 Simply put, that was wildly inaccurate.\u00a0 Yet, the stereotype began and remains to this day.\u00a0 \u00a0While there ARE some similarities among school shooters-\u00a0including being white, male, having a difficult home life and having depression or other mental illnesses – who or how plentiful their friends are just isn’t one of them.<\/p>\n second, why on Earth put it on the kids?\u00a0 We are talking about KIDS here.\u00a0 Children aren’t supposed to have to be the ones patrolling and policing schools for safety.\u00a0 That’s on us adults.\u00a0 Kids can’t diagnose mental illness, change policy on gun sales, or do any of the things we adults should be doing to stop these tragedies from happening.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s not their fault and it’s a terrible thing to try to make it their fault.<\/p>\n Which leads me to the second meme:<\/p>\n First of all, the sanctimonious superiority complex leaking out of this is almost impressive.<\/p>\n Second,\u00a0 we’re not sending a very good message to kids by telling them there are no consequences for their actions.\u00a0 Of COURSE we should all be free to be the best versions of ourselves we can be, but my freedom to swing my fist ends where your face begins.\u00a0 There is a difference between victim shaming and enabling bad behavior.\u00a0 Bullying is real and shouldn’t be tolerated.<\/p>\n Which leads me to, third, I don’t think telling someone to screw off is ever good advice.\u00a0 I can’t recall a single time it lead to a thoughtful, meaningful dialogue about the issues at hand.\u00a0 It’s inflammatory and is a phrase best left for bad breakups and cheesy PG rated rom-coms.<\/p>\n Sadly, thought, meaningful dialogues are hard to come by these days.\u00a0 But substituting bad memes for those difficult discussions doesn’t help anyone, least of all the kids we are all supposedly trying to help.\u00a0 So please, I beg of you, be an adult.\u00a0 There are scant few of those around anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week I discussed how arguing on social media is a pointless cause.\u00a0 Since I wrote that post I’ve seen one of the best examples ever of this play out right on my Facebook feed so this week. I’m referring to these two memes- the second a supposed rebuttal to the first. These are both absolute garbage. On the top… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-things-that-make-you-go-huh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n