Gay Bullying Taken To Whole New Level In Pittsburgh-Area School

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/18/1378520/-Pittsburgh-Area-High-School-Students-Hold-Anti-Gay-Day-two-days-in-a-row

Honestly, at first I think I'm most upset that flannel is one of their outfit choices. I thought the extended multi-day protest was disgusting enough only to find out there was specific targeted bullying alongside it and no mention of any administrative action. Of course, it's not exactly a press release but no source mentions any type of intervention. Not trying to limit the free speech but some of this is harassment going well above and beyond the statement. Most horrible piece of news in at least a week. Should go over great on here.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Well you know what Santorum said... Man on man would soon be dog on man.  The dogs are out and they're wearing flannel.  The sloppy discharge barking out of their mouths is Santorum.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

.....how tf can people do this

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

There is almost no difference between that area of SW PA than the backwoods of West By God Virginia, so this shouldn't be a giant surprise.

[Cory]

Terrible.

[Torie]

Is this happening on campus? If so, the administrators should shut it down. There is no right to free speech on a high school campus. SCOTUS has so held. When speech gets disruptive on campus, shut it down. The brats can do it off campus on their own time.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Is this happening on campus? If so, the administrators should shut it down. There is no right to free speech on a high school campus. SCOTUS has so held. When speech gets disruptive on campus, shut it down. The brats can do it off campus on their own time.

Yes, most of the campaign appears to be related to dressing in solidarity so that can be tough to stop but even some of the stuff just beyond I might typically support even if there is no right to it (like the writing on the hands). Beyond that is obviously borderline free speech even outside of a school.

[TDAS04]

Despicable.

[Dr. Cynic]

I hate that it's here. Damn kids.

[Ban my account ffs!]

wtf I love flannel shirts. This ruins everything; now I have to go to the mall again.

Just remember Paul Bunyan wore flannel...and his sweetheart was Lucette...who wore red, white, and black as opposed to his red, blue, and black.

It seems the sw pa people are looking for Lucette and they mad that Babe is Paul's better companion.

[Mr. Reactionary]

wtf I love flannel shirts. This ruins everything; now I have to go to the mall again.

Don't let them co-opt flannel. Then they win.

[DemPGH]

Sigh. Yeah, it's too bad, but it is rural SW Pennsylvania, which is indistinguishable from WV, as Grumps points out. They may on some level resent the fact that they are part of PA on the whole, I don't know. But once you get outside of the limits if Pittsburgh, you are basically in WV, and that applies up I-79 to Erie.

[TJ in Oregon]

I would hope, regardless of whatever one might think of homosexuality, that we could all agree bullying is wrong, no?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

And it allegedly gets worse somehow with reports of a "lynch list" circulating the school...

Still no reports of any intervention except by teachers who acted by themselves to take hateful posters off lockers.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

I commend these brave freedom-loving Christians fighting valiantly against having the homosexual agenda shoved down their throats [/BasicallyTheRepublicanStanceOnThisIssue]

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I just got done getting rid of the bathwater in this thread.  I may have thrown out a baby or two, in which case I apologize, but they'd have drowned anyway and there was too much bathwater for me to take the time to be more selective.

X Your friendly neighborhood spidermod

[angus]

I just got done getting rid of the bathwater in this thread.  I may have thrown out a baby or two, in which case I apologize, but they'd have drowned anyway and there was too much bathwater for me to take the time to be more selective.

Tiberius liked to take baths with young boys in his Isle of Capri palace.  They would swim around him and nibble on him.  He called them his "minnows."

[RR1997]

Disgusting

[Potus]

This doesn't happen in West Virginia.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

This doesn't happen in West Virginia.

That's because no kid in WV is openly gay.

[HAnnA MArin County]

This doesn't happen in West Virginia.

That's because no kid in WV is openly gay.

LOL I was thinking the same thing.

[ElectionsGuy]

Sad. At a high school level we shouldn't have mob mentality. Its also incridibly easy to pick on a minority, somehow people make themselves feel better by picking on someone that doesn't conform to societal "standards".

[Badger]

There is almost no difference between that area of SW PA than the backwoods of West By God Virginia, so this shouldn't be a giant surprise.

This. arguably the real divider between north and south isn't the Mason-Dixon Line, it's I-70.

How widespread--or not--was this? From reading the story it could've been a majority of students, or it could've been 2 dozen. My guess would be closer to the latter.