It may be understandable that to this day, I honestly still feel my blood boil when bullying gets mentioned.
Really?
Look at the popular culture around you, comedy movies, youtube videos, blogs all about bullying people (fail blog and all fail culture), look at the front page of reddit etc.
I understand that if you don't personally connected but you can see that people enjoy other people's failures and misery.
This kind of popular culture and the internet makes it even worse.
This is a very grim outlook on life. What I see in popular culture is—for the most part—people being clowns in order to draw attention. I also think that having laughs at the expense of someone else's misfortune is not at the same level as causing misfortune in order to get some laughs, completely different things.