“Kids are bullied because they do xyz behaviors.”
No, kids are bullied because they are around bullies.
Just as domestic abuse victims are abused because their abusers are abusers (and not bc of the victims’ behavior), kids are bullied bc bullies are bullies.
There is not some divided responsibility between victim and bully, and if we teach kids that there is, we teach them to accept or perpetrate abuse throughout their lives.
Twizzlers Pull-N-Peel (1996)
Taken from Disney Adventures: December 1996 (Page 5)