Anti-Bullying Dragnet Bullies Civil Rights

Glenn Ricketts

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  • November 16, 2011

Read this piece by Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to get a sense where the growing obsession with "bullying" seems to be headed. What exactly is "bullying?" You probably wouldn't think that failure to invite everyone to your kid's class to his birthday could get you into trouble, but anti-bullying crusaders have no problem coming after you if you do. Let's put it this way: as with sexual harassment, so with "bullying." We've heard this record before, and Bader ably navigates through the maze of still another Orwellian expansion of the power of nannyish microregulators.

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