Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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SanAndreasX said:

shavenferret said:

It's an odd statement though.  It's just like when we were in grade school and the big kid picks on the little kid.  But there's a plot twist to the usual story, and the small kid has some moves and opens up a can of whupass on the bully.  

Usually nobody has any sympathy for the bully.  

But why is there sympathy for Russia?  I mean, everybody hates them right now?  

It's actually the opposite, at least in the schools I went to. The bully gets away with being a bully. When the small kid decides to get some payback in, the same school administrators who looked the other way, freak out, and the victim is the one who gets punished.

So this checks out. 

A friend of mine went to a school where they went by the "it takes two to start a fight" way of thinking and punished the victim the same as the bully. When he, as the victim, protested, he was sent to the director along with the teacher. He tried to argue but fell on deaf ears. So he then said he would make an experiment and slapped his teacher, to which the director said he would get expulsed on the spot. He then asked if the teacher would also get expulsed since they punish the victim the same way as they punish the perpetrator, which left the director in a bind since the student's uncle was a lawyer and could easily play the favoritism and even race card (he's mixed black/filipino) for this incident.

Two days later they changed the rules so that victims wouldn't get punished the same way as perpetrators do.