Social media allows students to make racist jokes and taunts publicly, while also adding the risk that incidents formerly relegated to closed-door PTA meetings can now potentially become viral news, forcing administrators into acting quickly and harshly.
Recently the rappers Beanie Sigel and 50 Cent taunted him publicly, but Mr. West didn't snipe back.
Mr. Paladino, long prone to raw and racist taunts, had publicly expressed the wish that President Obama would die of mad cow disease and that first lady Michelle Obama would "return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe," where she would cohabitate with a gorilla in a cave.
The Wall Street Journal calls it both an effort at "taunting" and "publicly lobbying" the hapless justice.
During his lifetime, and even after his death, Ali was publicly taunted for failing to act like a "real man".
Rebel leaders have pleaded with the Kremlin for military assistance in the past, and some prominent Russian nationalists have publicly taunted President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of cowardice.
No critic has so publicly taunted the Communist Party as Mr. Ai, even as security officers have employed a variety of tactics in a continuing campaign to cow him.
His move had the hallmarks of a coup, yet Haftar had no apparent way to enforce it, and he was publicly taunted for his hubris.
Name another president in recent decades who publicly taunted and savaged peers in his putative party the way that Trump does.
After being publicly taunted and called a "slut" by radio personality Rush Limbaugh, people across the nation rallied in Ms Fluke's defense and started waking up to a growing "war on women".
But Mr. Brass stayed on at Oracle for eight years, as senior vice president of corporate affairs, involved in strategy and writing speeches for Mr. Ellison -- who is known for having publicly taunted Mr. Gates.
