Fintan O’Toole: There is at least one obvious reason children have become more violent towards other children
The victim is 14 years old. A 14 year-old is not a man, young or otherwise.
For whatever the intention, calling the victim a “young man” has the effect of minimising the violence. And, more subtly, of minimising the culpability of the social media companies that allowed the video of the assault to be shared for entertainment. In 2018, Unicef, the United Nations Children’s Fund, reported nearly half of Irish teenagers as saying they experienced peer violence at school
It may not be that there is more violence in schools, but that it has largely shifted from being implicit to being explicit, from tacit threat to open enforcement. One thing to wonder about with all of this is whether it is getting worse. No firm answer is possible because there are no studies of what bullying of children by other children used to be like.
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