Child is relentlessly bullied because her name is Isis.

[Feeling the Bern]

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A 14-year-old girl’s message to her bullies at school is going viral. The seventh grader has undergone constant tormenting and harassment from her peers because her first name is Isis.

“I have people come up to me and say why are you killing us Americans? I’m an American, too, how are you going to say that,” Isis says. It doesn’t take very much sleuthing to know that the young girl is entirely innocent in the matter. As Shakespeare said, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” meaning names are just personal labels that don’t define us or our character. Why should one little girl have to answer for the actions of a cruel organization, when it’s all just a bizarre coincidence?

I bet you the school does nothing to stop it.

There is a video the girl made. I don't tear up easily. But, I feel for her. I got it fore being the only Jew in a hick town.

[Renew Deal]

1. Isis has been one of the most popular baby names for a long time.

It only dropped off in 2015. It was 706 in 2014 and 575 in 2013. There are probably a ton more cases.

Having this name taken by terrorists is incredibly bad luck. I wonder if it's another reason why Obama has chosen Isil.

https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi

[dembotoz]

2. my kid has a dog name isis now called iris or some such

few legal doc with a dogs name

feel for the kid

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Just imagine how Daesh Connelly of Johnson City, New York feels!

Or Alfred ("Al&quot Cayder of Lordstown, Ohio.

(Actually, there are kids named Dash, a la Dashiell Hammett).

[TDale313]

4. I saw this. She's a strong, very bright young woman

Isis is a lovely name- she was I'm sure named for the Egyptian Goddess (long before ISIL was a group) The name had been around for millennia and it sucks that this is (for now) what too many think of when they hear it.

[Feeling the Bern]

5. Low IQ Americans. . .

[Coventina]

6. A lovely name ruined.

This is why I try to always use "Daesh" when referring to those creeps.

[Feeling the Bern]

7. I use dipshit. :)

[arely staircase]

8. Reminds me of this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds

[TlalocW]

9. I always liked the name Isis

Probably because I liked Joanna Cameron in the Saturday morning show in the 1970s that came on after Shazam! Unfortunately, that name is probably "ruined" for a while.



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