Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools

well this is excellent news for the people of hn, the largest community of childhood bullying survivors on the internet

it's never too late

would we be on HN if we were the popular kids in school?

There are a lot of tech-bros, who were definitely not the nerds in school and are in tech mostly because of money and prestige.

I was never bullied and was the popular kid, and honestly, I don’t like the concept that all these ‘nerds’ you see nowadays were bullied back in school and it’s why they became nerds, in fact, I never heard of school bullying outside of the US schools, or generally North Americans ones. Maybe movies contributed to that, or reinforced such a phenomenon?

Grew up in Germany in the 80/90s, we had plenty of bullying.

Nah, it's common everywhere. Kids can be cruel and some will be given the opportunity of access to someone not fitting in.

1. 4chan is much larger than HN ;)

2. People here like to act like it didn’t happen to them. If you didn’t see it, it still happened. Nerds are hated in America because life imitates the shitty art of John Hughes et al.

I was a nerd well before I was bullied. I remember some of the earliest bullying I experienced - this older kid called me "Macintosh" because we had a Mac computer at home (no DOS/Win) and this kid thought that was worthy of harassing me about. It was weird because that kid wasn't much of a computer-savvy person but just found something "different" to call out. /shrug