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* The [[wikipedia:Red Guards (China)|Red Guards]] were a political movement started by high school students at the beginning of the [[Red China|Chinese Cultural Revolution]], which quickly devolved into a gang of thugs who publicly assaulted or humiliated everyone who was perceived to be an enemy of the Revolution. The movement became co-opted by Mao and manipulated to help him purge his rivals in the Communist Party. Eventually, the Guards got so out of hand that the army itself had to be called in to reestablish order all over the country, and even Mao wouldn’t help them. |
* The [[wikipedia:Red Guards (China)|Red Guards]] were a political movement started by high school students at the beginning of the [[Red China|Chinese Cultural Revolution]], which quickly devolved into a gang of thugs who publicly assaulted or humiliated everyone who was perceived to be an enemy of the Revolution. The movement became co-opted by Mao and manipulated to help him purge his rivals in the Communist Party. Eventually, the Guards got so out of hand that the army itself had to be called in to reestablish order all over the country, and even Mao wouldn’t help them. |
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* The murder of [[wikipedia:Murder of Reena Virk|Reena Virk]] in British Columbia. |
* The murder of [[wikipedia:Murder of Reena Virk|Reena Virk]] in British Columbia. |
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** And the murder of Kimberly Proctor which also happened on Vancouver island. The teens who were convicted of the crime [http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110404/teen-murder-sentencing-110404 |
** And the murder of Kimberly Proctor which also happened on Vancouver island. The teens who were convicted of the crime [https://web.archive.org/web/20120617235638/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110404/teen-murder-sentencing-110404 were sentenced as adults.] which was the harshest sentence the judge could give them. |
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* The murder of [[wikipedia:Murder of Shanda Sharer|Shanda Sharer]] who was tortured and burned to death by four teenage girls. |
* The murder of [[wikipedia:Murder of Shanda Sharer|Shanda Sharer]] who was tortured and burned to death by four teenage girls. |
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* The reputation of teenagers being monsters and the fear of school violence is the basis of zero-tolerance policies in the USA. This means that instances that fall under the heading of these policies are not investigated for anything but to determine whether the infraction itself occurred, which of course it did or it wouldn't be an infraction. [[The Other Wiki]] has links to criticisms of said policies in [[wikipedia:Zero tolerance (schools)|its page on the topic.]] |
* The reputation of teenagers being monsters and the fear of school violence is the basis of zero-tolerance policies in the USA. This means that instances that fall under the heading of these policies are not investigated for anything but to determine whether the infraction itself occurred, which of course it did or it wouldn't be an infraction. [[The Other Wiki]] has links to criticisms of said policies in [[wikipedia:Zero tolerance (schools)|its page on the topic.]] |
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