{"id":291339,"date":"2016-09-08T15:45:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=291339"},"modified":"2021-01-09T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T20:51:22","slug":"12yo-irish-boy-takes-on-social-media-bullies-and-500k-viewers-now-have-his-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/12yo-irish-boy-takes-on-social-media-bullies-and-500k-viewers-now-have-his-back\/","title":{"rendered":"12yo Irish boy takes on social media bullies \u2013 and 500k viewers now have his back"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Any kind of bullying should be illegal and prosecuted as a crime. The worst, when I was at school, was seeing teachers closing a blind eye on it as if it was normal behavior. These teachers should also be prosecuted.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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\u201cThe Bully,\u201d a film written and directed by a 12-year-old Irish boy now living in the suburbs of Chicago, has been acclaimed a \u201cwork of art\u201d and garnered over half a million views online.<\/p>\n

Jonah Maxwell, who moved from Ireland to Illinois in 2011, says he made the film to show how bullying has worsened over the past number of years due to the proliferation of social media.<\/p>\n

Jonah, who attends school in St Charles, west of the country\u2019s third biggest city, says the film\u2019s contents are mainly based on experiences his friends have told him about, but admitted he too was bullied on one occasion in elementary school.<\/p>\n

In the six-minute video, which has clocked up over 540,000 views, children detail what they\u2019ve experienced at the hands of\u00a0\u201cfaceless bullies,\u201d\u00a0ranging from exclusion, name calling, body shaming, emotional and physical abuse, and rumors being spread about them online.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad told me when he was a kid, bullying would stop at 3:30 every day after school. I told him it\u2019s not like that anymore \u2013 they can get you 24\/7,\u201d\u00a0Jonah said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBullying can be physical, sexual, verbal or emotional. In 2016 it is almost impossible to know how much of this goes on after school on Facebook, Twitter, Kik, Poke, Whisper, Tumblr, Vine or Instagram,\u201d\u00a0he says in the film.<\/p>\n

Jonah\u2019s father is a filmmaker and helped his son edit the film, while his mother, Jennifer, helped choreograph parts of the film, which has now been shown in numerous schools in the US, Brazil, Ireland and Australia.<\/p>\n

YouTubers have branded Jonah\u2019s film as\u00a0\u201centhralling and moving\u201d\u00a0as well as being a\u00a0\u201cwork of art.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShould be shown at all schools,\u201d\u00a0commented user mary obrien, while ChannelRyanH wrote that they\u00a0\u201cwish every kid in the world could see this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bully is a work of genius, Mr. Jonah Maxwell. Bravo and thank you,\u201d\u00a0wrote Stella Quick.<\/p>\n

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RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Any kind of bullying should be illegal and prosecuted as a crime. The worst, when I was at school, was seeing teachers closing a blind eye on it as if it was normal behavior. These teachers should also be prosecuted.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":291341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}