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Setting the Bully Table

The often unnoticed first strategic step in bullying is to isolate. Religious political economic and/or sexual bullying begins, already, feeling entitled to pervasively disempower, dissociate, disinvest, unenlighten, excommunicate, lock up, terminate from employment, send to the reservation, asylum ghetto, wrong side of the LeftBrain dominant self-righteous tracks. Deeply separate, divide and, thereby, expose and bully that Other, or those Others, who need to learn their place, separate and deservedly unequal, to relearn their divinely-inspired space of oppression neglect punishment For being wrong, too needy greedy, too ignorant, uneducated simple quiet and sneaky ***** unbinary effeminate pretentious hypocritical weird looking, sounding, smelling, frightening angry threatening... Such alien Others are first isolated at least by disreputation, then abused First neglected shunned Othered alienated unaccepted, Then ridiculed used raped vilified Blatantly and falsely accused of being motivated to dismiss and impoverish the monoculturing Bullies through stealth or by speaking their lying, biased self-serving Truth Which is always ignored until They get too uppity again. Bullies and their Victims are, thereby, deprived of experiencing compassionate cooperatively appreciated and co-invested dialogue. Bullies and their Victims thereby declare and suffer wars where everyone, including plants and animals, soil and water and air quality, suffers and loses except, in the bookkeeping department, the military-industrial short-term corporate profit Bullies Who will not realize their self-victimizing long-term health and safety losses until degeneratively isolated from all prospects for a livable sustainable humane sacredly compassionate EarthTribe health and safety future climate regenerative resilience.

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