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When bullying is offered as a model from the top of power

Politiko 2025-04-21 15:35:34

When bullying is offered as a model from the top of power

By Lutfi Dervishi

Within a few weeks, another young man ended his life in the same city, at the same school. TikTok, now shut down, was not to blame.

When the lives of young people depend on a thread of hope that they find neither in school, nor in society, nor on social networks, we cannot turn a blind eye indefinitely. Nor can we act hypocritically, pretending to be surprised.

Bullying is not born in school classrooms; it is learned from pulpits, screens, and campaigns.

When politicians mock, label, and put each other down with vulgar language and insulting epithets, what do young people learn?

They learn that the strongest wins and defeats through ridicule, not through reasoning. That salvation comes by attacking the other, not by understanding oneself.

The electoral campaign has long been not a contest of ideas and confrontations, but a national contest of insults. Instead of debate, there are epithets. Instead of vision, memes and digital bullying.

While young people fall one by one, no resignation, no reflection, no responsibility. Because we have set up a system where words hurt and silence buries them. And the most tragic thing: this happens under the silence of the institutions.

It is not enough to stop the campaign for one day in Gjirokastra to respect the family's pain. We must say "Stop" to bullying and understand that words kill!

Bullying kills. First in silence. Then in headlines. And finally, as a culture, as a mentality, as a tool of power. Until someone says: Enough is Enough.

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