The conclusion of your article, I find to be very true in so my ways. It is something I have noticed with almost all individuals in society. Another thing is; being made to feel less valuable by someone, we tend to find someone else to make feel less about themselves, in order to feel better about ourselves. It is like; instead of coming together to fight against bully; we become what we do not like and fight against ourselves. Humans are such complex and interesting animals.
Btw i found your via a post you made 11 months ago. I've been doing some research on " the flag war" which took place around that time. ;-)
An acquaintance, when she was in high school, had a dwarf-girl as a classmate. A few of the classmates from their class, and students from other classes, use to insult or mock this girl. In those occassions, most of their classmates would step in to defend this girl, even some of the boys recurring to their fists. And they would marginalize all the kids who were mean to this girl. In the end they stopped and they came to respect her just like she was, besides she had an amazing personality; the support of his friends made her feel confident enough to stand up for herself too, and she wouldn't belittle in front of anyone.
Yeah, I was rather pretty "infamous" back then. Still until today. Not many people enjoy my attitude.