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George Lopez: “We Were All Bullied As Kids.”

Late-night comedy host George Lopez has a different take on the current “It Gets Better” videos. He says, “Here’s what we have to understand: We cannot live in the past. We were all bullied as kids.” But as the “Lopez Tonight” host tells Access Hollywood, “I am a parent. I do not allow my daughter to have a Facebook page or a MySpace page or Twitter. If you’re looking for positive, don’t look to Twitter, and for us who are older, let’s not go into the past and talk about our bullying, but help kids now.”

He adds, “We focus our attention on computers and parents being parents in their own home, not allowing their child to dress provocatively, to not allow Facebook and MySpace and to have text messages,” he said. “You have to eliminate the electronics because it’s almost like a weapon that kids aren’t supposed to have.”

So, instead of talking about being bullied, Lopez, it seems, is suggesting parents work to take away some of the tools bullies use.

I think both are important.

Lopez didn’t speak directly about the ten or more LGBT anti-gay bullying teen suicides, but it’s great that the national conversation is maintaining this focus.


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