Postby Jason Toddman » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:39 pm
According to the wiki I posted earlier, he is apparently the victim of a lot of pranks and hoaxes. I suppose he asks for it in a way (because of the way he sometimes acts and talks is off-puting to some people), but only to a point. Having been bullied myself as a small child, I don't care for the games of 'Blame the Victim' or 'Whipping Boy'. Also, these same pranks and hoaxes may also be making him look even worse than he actually is. They certainly make it difficult for someone who knows little about him to separate truth from malicious fiction, and I myself have seen the results of people I knew being slandered to the point where their public image didn't in the least resemble the actual person - and this was before tweets, Facebook, and cyber-bullying were invented.
Personally, I prefer to judge a person only by what I myself see and hear them do or say (or write) themselves and discount everything else anyone else says about them (good or bad). Right now, there is so much unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo about Bieber that I can't help wonder what he could possiby have done to deserve all the bad press. If people were as vicious toward me as they are toward him, I'd probably be a pretty unlikable person myself just because who enjoys putting up with all the bullshit he apparently has to?! People passing off rumors that he died, or that his mom abuses him? What kind of assholes spread such bullshit about *anyone* around? Seems to me that he takes all that crap better than most other people I heard of would. So maybe we should cut him some slack, huh?
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