Have you ever had a situation where someone is bullying you, or someone you know, and when you circulate the situation to see if people are seeing what you’re seeing, someone says, “I don’t know… he’s always been nice to me.” This is the bullying equivalent of, “I was just following orders.” People who sit by and let someone they know treat another abusively or poorly under the heading of “they’re always nice to me,” are only enabling the antagonist. How many people could say that Jeffrey Dahmer was always nice to them? I’ll bet O.J. Simpson was very…
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