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>> oh, like faggot, emo, gay, stuff like that.se i was smarter than him or the music that i listened to. just pretty much if i was different from him he would find a name to call me that was related to the difference and just call me that name. >> it seems like that's pretty much those names are kind of the most common names that bullies will call guys. they'll use the f-word, is that pretty much everyone's experience here? >> yeah. >> when you hear about kids who have committed suicide, who have killed themselves because of bullying, does it surprise you? >> no. >> not really. >> doesn't surprise you? >> no. because it makes you realize how really serious bullying is, because what some people might think that bullying really isn't that big of a deal, anything that causes kids to really kill themselves has to be a big problem. and it needs to be stopped. but -- >> because i think when i hear about it when adults hear about kids, an 11-year-old kid kills himself, or hangs himself, it's shocking, but it's interesting that all of you

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>> faggot, dyke, dumbass, ugly ass bitch. >> people actually say that to your face?er say it to your face or when they're walking by, under their breath. >> what is this like? >> horrifying. >> it makes me feel lonely, like there's no one out there like me that's getting bullied. they call me faggot, fag boy, gamien, gay boy, gay. >> at 1 point, i understand, you could name 40 kids that were bullying you. that's incredible. >> mm-hmm. >> 40 kids. >> 40. you feel like they just think you're a piece of garbage that they can just throw away. and it makes you feel powerless, weak, and defenseless. and then when you tell a teacher, they won't stop it. >> it's just stunning. to see more of anderson's interview, go to ac360.com. it's all a part of our special study, a joint effort with facebook and our corporate cousins, to help stop the bullying epidemic. be sure to join anderson for an encore presentation of his town hall, "bullying: it stops here," that's this friday, october 14th at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. right here on cnn. >>> let's take one final look at some other stori

>> gay, faggot, gay boy. >> brittany? what do people call you? >> they call me [ bleep ]. and even words i'm ashamed to say even to this day. >> if you go to a counselor in your school, brittany, what do they tell you? what do they say to you? >> they tell me not to use that language. that's not appropriate. and -- >> but you're not the one using that language. >> yeah. i explained to them what they would say and how they said it but they would tell me not to talk that way and not use that language or just forget it, ignore him or walk away like it didn't bother you because if you act like it doesn't bother you it will stop, but it never did. >> dylan, you have been recently taken out of school and now you are home schooled. did you not feel safe in school? >> kids made me feel like i was the grossest person in the world and they would just go against walls and say, here comes the he/she. or here comes the trash. and they made me feel gross and i didn't feel safe at school so i just left. >> damian, if -- i know you had an incident where someone called you the "n" word. di

>> they would call me gay, faggot, fag boy. >> what do people call you? faggot, even words i'm ashamed to say to this day. >> you've been taken out of the school, you're now being home schooled. did you just not feel safe in school? >> kids made me feel like i was the grossest person in the world and go against walls and say here comes the he/she or here comes the trash and they made me feel gross, and i didn't feel safe at school, so i just left. >> i'm sitting here and stewing with rage, and i just feel so angry and so upset for the four of you and your class experience, and it seems to me that this is all backwards. instead of taking it up with the kids that are tormenting daily and using abusive language and being abusive to their students, this young man can't even go to school anymore. he shouldn't be the one having to stay home. i just want you to know that people do care about you, i care about you, and i really feel touched for your experience. >> you and your wife are raising a daughter, when you hear these kids, what goes through your mind? >>

i want that faggot dead. >> i've been verbally abused because of my religion. i'm a muslim girl. >> i didn't even see him coming. he just came out of nowhere and hit me. >> reporter: bullying, not only at school, it foms kids home, online, on their cell phones, nowhere to hide. >> people can just post things anonymously. >> it's for bullies that are afraid to say it to your face. >> you're fat, you should just kill yourself. we don't need you in our school. the world would go on without you. >> reporter: other kids, bystanders, scared into silence. is there fear in talking to teachers or talking to the principal? >> yeah. >> it's -- >> reporter: how so? >> you could just get called a snitch. >> reporter: it can actually make it worse. >> yeah. >> reporter: as for the victims, a long day at school ar back at home. >> you just think, i have to go face them again. i have to spend another eight hours in that prison. and no matter what you do, you can't escape. >> death is the only escape. because if you kill yourself, it's done. you don't have to do it anymore. >>

one of the top ranked schools in the nation, has a bullying problem. >> they're calling like gay, faggotther you start cutting yourself, you kill yourself, you develop like an eating disorder. it becomes obsessive. >> they physically abused me, mentally abused me, emotionally abused me. i'll admit i had thoughts of suicide. >> reporter: "360" teamed up with robert faris and diane fellney to observe the kids at wheatley, why kids bully. in this study more than 700 students took a scientifically designed survey four different times the over the semester. what we discovered was shocking. 56% of all students had engaged in aggressive behavior, been victimized by bullies or both. out of all incidents more than 80% were never reported to an adult. perhaps even more alarming to parents in this survey, 74% of students said they don't think that telling their parents about an incident would be helpful. does that surprise you? >> no. >> reporter: doesn't surprise you. >> no. >> reporter: why? >> most people say that telling your parents, parents will most likely say just ignore it. you can't ignor

i was in competitions where i was called faggot, and there was the fag buster campaign. it was very difficult sometimes when we would travel internationally, because nobody wanted to room with the fag. so i usually ended up rooming with one of the coaches. >> no one on your own team wanted to room with you? >> yeah. usually i would find one person on the team that was, you know, secure enough in their own sexuality that they knew it wasn't an issue. >> there have been a number of columnists here in the states that suggested the athletes on the u.s. team carry rainbow flags or other athletes do that. do you think that's a good idea? i think it's against ioc rules. >> yeah, it's a really tough call, and you know, unfortunately the ioc is not following their own charter. in their charter, the entire olympic movement is about not discriminating. and here they're being very select in what they're enforcing. and they have come forward to say that they would take action toward those athletes who do demonstrate. it's really unfortunate that the ioc is not living up to -- they're

and it bothered me because we would be like faggot and they would taunt me in the hallways and i felt i never could have escape it. people would constantly send me hate telling me gay people go to hell. >> he said he got hate messages on the site formspring which allows kids to post anonymous comments about each other and to each other. but back then, as you hear, he said he rose above the negativity. >> i promise you it will get better. i have so much support from people i don't even know online. i know that sounds creepy, but they're so nice and caring and they don't ever want me to die. >> two weekends ago after saying good night to his sister, jamie rodemeyer took his own life. he was only 14 years old. his school in williamsville, new york, does have a bullying prevention program. you'll hear a bit from the local superintendent shortly. a lot of schools have similar programs and more states are enacting new anti-bullying laws. some are facing resistance from groups saying that it promotes tolerance of a gay agenda. but jamie was above all that for a while and seemed to have pushe

. >> calling me gay, faggot, dumbass. it can be hurtful. >> bad things happen.hether you cut or kill yourself, you develop an eating disorder. it's obsessive. it becomes obsessive. >> they physically and mentally and emotionally abused me and i'll admit i had thoughts of suicide in ninth grade. >> 360 teamed up with sociologist robert ferris and diane felt willly y to see how serious the issue is here at wheatley. why kids bully and how to stop the problem. 700 students took a survey four times over the semester. what we discovered was shocking. 56% of all students had engaged in aggressive behavior, been victimized by bullies or both. and out of all incidents 80% were never reported to an adult. perhaps more alarming to parents -- >> in the survey 74% of students said they don't think that telling their parents about an understand dent would be helpful. does that surprise you? >> no. >> most people say that telling your parents -- parents will most likely say just ignore it. you can't ignore it. it will stick to you and you will think about it at the end of the

they called the people that spoke against them faggots. would a good person march with them chanting nazi slogans? the president seems to think so. the president has no regrets. but heather heyer's mother does. she regrets losing her mother, murdered when a car plowed into her allegedly by a neo nazi. heather was remembered today in a memorial in charlottesville. her mother spoke at the memorial. she asked mourners to look for ways of making a difference in the world, ways of making it better. ways of making heather's murder and the emptiness her mom feels mean more than what it now is, the deepest would any parent can sustain. the president did not speak with susan today. he did not travel to charlottesville, though yesterday moments after his incendiary comments, he made sure to promote the fact that he has a winery there, one of the largest in the country. it's not. another lie the president told yesterday. president trump did tweet once about heather heyer today before heading to his new jersey golf club. he also dissolved a pair of ad

and it bothered me because people would be like faggot and they would taunt me in the hallways, and i made a forum which i shouldn't have done and people would send me hate tell meeg that gay people go to hell. >> he said he constantly got hate messages on formspring, which is a site that allows kids to send anonymous messages to each other. back then, as you hear, he said he rose above the negativity. here's more of what jamie had to say. >> and i just want to tell you that it does get better because when i came out for being bi, i got so much support from my friends. it made me feel so secure. and then if your friend ors family is even there for you, i look up to one of the most supporting people of the gay community that i think of that i know, lady gaga. she makes me so happy, and she lets me know that i was born this way. and that's my advice to you from her. we were born this way. all you have to do is hold your head up and you'll go far because that's all you have to do. just love yourself. >> love yourself and you're set. now here ta's the last part of message. perhaps the mos

chanting "jews will not replace us," calling the counter protesters who were there, calling them faggotshow do you defend that? how do you defend the president for what he said today, those people -- he was saying that they were quietly protesting the statue. >> well, the interesting thing that i saw in the clip of the entire night, the clip that you showed from the entire night on friday was that there was people on the other side chatting black lives matter. >> how dare they. >> let me finish my comment. my point is, there were other people there that night that were not saying -- >> there were a couple of dozen counter protesters who had surrounded the statue when the several hundred guys with tiki torches arrived and they basically were overwhelmed and the police came once they were chased off. >> the only point i'm making is that everybody there friday night were not doing the things that you're saying that the majority of them were doing. >> look, there's hundreds of people with tiki torches -- >> it's very simple -- [ overlapping speakers ] let me start off by saying i'm not equat

what's in those movies is shocking, anti-gay slurs, and liberal use of a hateful word, "faggot." the commander in mind is now the top officer of that navy fighting ship. we have some clips to share with you from the videos. please be advised they contain graphic language. here's captain honor himself, playing three different characters, introducing a "greatest hits" reel of video clips. >> as usual, the admiral and the captain have no idea about the contents of the video or movie this evening. and they should not be able to -- >> over the years i've gotten several complaints about inappropriate material during these videos. never to me personally, but gutlessly through other channels. this evening, all of you bleeding hearts and you fag, why don't you go ahead and hug yourself for the next 20 minutes or so, because there's a really good chance you're going to be offended tonight. >> now, these next scenes come from a video about water conservation. it depicts mock homosexual interactions between both men and women. >> a navy statement on all this says in part, quote, production o

one kid said that he wanted to light me on fire, like the faggot i was. >> the child was not reprimandedchild was not given anything other than a talking to. and then sent back to class. >> reporter: if i'm your son's principal, and this has happened, what can i do to help you as a mom feel like i'm doing my job? >> teachers need to be trained or be given permission in their classrooms to simply succinctly address intolerant comments and behavior. >> reporter: the 2010 middle school principal of the year, also joey's mom. together they're teaching current and future educators how to stop bullying. >> the culture in schools doesn't really change until the whole school community takes it on. >> most schools have a 45-minute tolerance assembly in their schools. but if it's only once in the entire year, it's like trying to put a band-aid on someone that needs surgery. it's just not going to work. >> reporter: last year ee created a facebook page called the equality project. >> i really want you to keep up the amazing work. i wish i had the guts to help you without people judging me. >> i hav

not replace us, blood and soil, calling the small group of counter protesters there calling them faggots, how do you defend the president for what he said today those people he was saying they were just quietly protesting a at that time to you. >> the interesting thing that i saw in the vice clip of the entire night, the one-minute clip that you showed from that entire night on friday, was there was people on the other side chanting black lives matter. >> how dare they? is that what you're saying? >> i'll finish my comment. my point is, there were other people there that night that were not saying alt-right things that you were saying. >> there were a couple of dozen counter protesters who surrounded the statue when several hundred guys with torches arrives and they were basically overwhelms and the police came once they were chased off. >> the only point i'm making is everybody there friday night were not doing the things that you're saying the majority were doing. >> there's hundreds of people with tiki torches. >> it's very simple. >> jews will not replace it. were there quiet people