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To: Greg or e who wrote (20148)	1/25/2012 2:49:07 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 69300

Having An Opinion Is Now "Bullying" ...Schools and anti-bullying activists have adopted incredibly overbroad definitions of bullying. The anti-bullying website NoBully.com, and schools like Fox Hill and Alvarado Elementary, define even "eye rolling" and other expressions of displeasure or hostility as bullying, even though doing so raises First Amendment problems. The Obama administration claims bullying is an "epidemic" and a "pandemic." But in reality, bullying and violence have steadily gone down in the nation's schools, as studies funded by the Justice Department have shown. The Obama administration's StopBullying.gov website defines a vast array of speech and conduct as bullying: it classifies "teasing" as a form of "bullying," and "rude" or "hurtful" "text messages" as "cyberbullying." Since "creating web sites" that "make fun of others" also is deemed "cyberbullying," conservative websites that poke fun at the president are presumably guilty of cyberbullying under this strange definition. .... http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/01/23/having_an_opini.html

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