I'm certain I've had American leftists report me or my youtube or twitter channel. It's like a 99.9% certainty.
But it's only been twice that someone said openly with zero hint of shame that they reported me.
Both were Europeans.
Both from Scandinavian countries. One was on Steam, where in the comment thread he happily told me he reported my account because I dared to have political disagreements with him.
And the second time was some twitch/youtube streamer I happened upon who was playing Morrowind and I mentioned that TES 6 would be woke. He then proceeded to live stream him reporting my channel for "hate speech".
Now I'm certain that at least dozens of American leftists have done the exact thing, but there's an American sense that tattling on someone and and using the force of a higher human authority is a bad and embarrassing look, so American leftists typically just do it, but don't announce it, instead pretend that they're made of tougher stuff.
But that American shame of tattling to whoever big brother is in the scenario, whether it's Valve or Google, over the most minor "social offenses", doesn't seem to be as prevalent over in Europe particularly in Scandinavian countries.
When I was little, ~25 years ago, the schools started teaching the kids to tattle.
The worst thing you could do was to deal with your bullies yourself. We were both explicitly taught this, as well as them making a big show of punishing people who dealt with their bullies. I remember it quite well, because this changed after a reorganisation where they also replaced most of the teachers. Before that time we did it the traditional way.
My parents were furious at the time, but I can't assume it's gotten any better.
Best way to deal with bullies is quite simple.
Firstly, have an older male relative. Brother, cousin, uncle. Father as absolute last resort because of its traceability. If you don't have one, confide in your best friend and see if he has anyone willing to co-operate.
Follow the fucker home, and take note of his address. Then during a weekend, send your relative to stalk the bastard, corner him when he's alone, and get the shit beaten out of him. The bullying will stop, the teachers won't be able to get involved, and if they send the police, just feign ignorance until they go away.
That was before a time when every kid now has a video camera in their pocket. And an adult male beating up an adolescent male is most certainly not a good look.
If you worship the state, then the highest crime is vigilantism.
I think we’re probably around the same age.
32 here.
I experienced teachers doing this but it didn’t click for me like it did just now until you wrote that comment.
Yeah, I had moments where I was punished for being a tattle tale, and also punished for fighting back.
I decided that since I was going to be punished for complaining, for being a victim, and for defending myself, I'd just go on the attack.
It worked, me and my bully got equal punishments.
When I was 10, I moved to a new school. There was one guy in particular, that would pick on me, largely because I was still learning the local language. One day, I had enough, so after I heard him make a comment behind me as we were coming back from recess, I just turned around and punched him in the face, when he was surrounded by his friends, and then just walked away. We ended up both getting in trouble, but mostly me.
Never had any issues with him after that. Nice guy.