Steven SausJul 9, 2024

First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

https://midwest.social/post/14300049

First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers - midwest.social

A bunch of eighth graders in a “wealthy Philadelphia suburb” recently targeted teachers with an extreme online harassment campaign that The New York Times reported was “the first known group TikTok attack of its kind by middle schoolers on their teachers in the United States.” According to The Times, the Great Valley Middle School students created at least 22 fake accounts impersonating about 20 teachers in offensive ways. The fake accounts portrayed long-time, dedicated teachers sharing “pedophilia innuendo, racist memes,” and homophobic posts, as well as posts fabricating “sexual hookups among teachers.”

Show threadTommySodaJul 9, 2024
If my kids did that I’d be perfectly fine with them getting kicked out of school or even press charges. I know teachers can be shitty but this is completely uncalled for unless they were actually doing those things
Show threadTodd BonzalezJul 9, 2024

If my kids did that I’d be perfectly fine with them getting kicked out of school or even if the teachers wanted to press charges.

Just a reminder that these are middle schoolers, if it were your kid, and a teacher decided to sue, it would be you getting sued for the behavior of a child you didn’t raise correctly.

So don’t try to take the high road here. If your kid did something like this, it would be because you were a shitty parent who didn’t teach them basic right and wrong.

“I’d let the state punish them on my behalf” is just revealing the issue: you expect other people to raise your kids.

Show threadCarroladeJul 9, 2024
The idea that parents actually have or even should have complete control over their kids is laughable. Did you perfectly obey all of your parents wishes while you were young, even when they were not watching?
Show threadLordGimpJul 9, 2024
He’s not talking about obedience, he’s talking about liability. There’s a difference between raising your kid to take out the garbage on command and raising them to be functional people. These parents failed that second aspect. And yes, they are in fact responsible for letting their little sociopaths out of the house.
Show threadintensely_human

This attack has nothing to do with being “functional people”.

I am not much of a functional person — can’t kept a job, terrible social life, etc — and I would never run this kind of attack on a person let alone join a group to do it en masse.

Being functional has nothing to do with this thing. This is about evil.

Jul 10, 2024 at 3:24pmWeb
Show threadLordGimpJul 10, 2024

Basic empathy is a requirement of being a functional person.

Not a job, not forcing yourself to be around other people, not owning a house, none of that shit.

You are valid so long as you recognize that every person matters. Anything less is to be inhuman.

Like coughcoughisraelcoughcough