Speak Out Before There is No One Left: Stop Bullying Now

Watch this powerful 41 seconds from MTV's fabulous campaign: A Thin Line.

It is so well done and so accurate. Words are etched into our memories if not literally etched with ink into our skin.

And watch this sweet anti-bullying ad.

Just one person standing up for another is incredibly powerful. And we all should; here is a reason why:

First They Came 

by Pastor Martin Niemoller

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. 

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. 

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. 

Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

This past September alone, there were four very public deaths of gay students who commited suicide - because. of. bullying. 

We cannot be silent as those around us are relentlessly bullied. 

We have to speak up... for the red heads, for the LGBT community, for the "uncool" kids... ANYONE facing this daily torture. 


Stop Bullying Now.
 

Correcting Our Language... with help from Dane Cook

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." 


This is utterly untrue. 


So often we say things that carry so much negative meaning and we don't even realize it. 


Well Dane Cook did. 


Check out this clip from his Isolated Incident tour last year. 


That pretty much says it all. He uses humor but obviously when we say something is gay or "Sorry I just raped your Facebook wall" for commenting five times in two days, this is NOT funny to someone who is gay or has been raped.   


Take Dane Cook's advice and quit using someone's lifestyle as a derogative adjective and stop tossing around the word rape as though it is on the same level of severity as losing a video game. 


Put yourself in their shoes. Think before you speak.