Date: 2007-05-01 03:09 pm (UTC)
I'm not sure everyone in school would agree that bullying is within the ordinary discourse of school. Not just the parents and teachers and social workers who (presumably) want to keep school discourse "humane" and "normalized" but I think some bullies will pathologize their own behavior and say that bullying -- including the bullying they're doing -- is wrong, unacceptable, not-accepted, not-ordinary (even if commonplace, like crime). Many of the bullies I encountered, when asked by both peers and authorities to give reasons for this disconnect ("why do you bully when you *know* it's wrong?" "why do you bully when even your friends think you're being retarded?") would just shrug.

Do we say something is within ordinary discourse simply because it happens all the time?
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