# Quote — Mark Ames, Going Postal

> One reason why our society has failed to curb bullying is that we like bullies. Hell, we are bullies. Research has shown that bullies are not the anti-social misfits that adults, in their forced amnesia, want them to be. Rather, bullies are usually the most popular boys, second only on the clique-ranking to those described as friendly, outgoing, and self-confident. The Santana High kids and parents both felt that there was no point in complaining to the administration because they wouldn't have done anything anyway, a reflection of the fact that popular winners are treated better than losers. At Columbine, parents and students both felt that bullies were favored by teachers and administrators, and that complainers were often ignored or blamed. Indeed, losers pay for being losers twice over in our schools, taking both the punishment and the blame.

- Author: [Mark Ames](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames.md)
- Book: [Going Postal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames/going-postal.md)
- Page: 191
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Ames#Going_Postal:_Rage,_Murder,_and_Rebellion,_From_Reagan's_Workplaces_to_Clinton's_Columbine_and_Beyond_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames/going-postal/one-reason-why

## More from this book

> Zero tolerance policies, heavy police responses to what would have once been considered empty boy boasting, and the increased fear and suspicion that they inspire only fuel more rage. The toxic school culture is only reinforced by repressive measures.

p. 177 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames/going-postal/zero-tolerance-policies.md)

> Americans wanted to blame everything but Columbine High for the massacre- they blamed a violent media, Marilyn Manson, Goth culture, the Internet, the Trench Coat Mafia, video games, lax gun control laws, and liberal values. And still skipping over the school, they peered into the opposite direction, blaming the moral and/or mental sickness, or alleged homosexuality, of these two boys, as if they were exceptional freaks in a school of otherwise happy kids. They searched all over the world for a motive, except for one place: the scene of the crime.

p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames/going-postal/americans-wanted-to-blame.md)

> As the Economic Policy Institute reported, "What income growth there was over the 1979-1989 period was driven primarily by more work at lower wages".

p. 87 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames/going-postal/as-the-economic.md)