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It seems to me that if you replace "whom other" with "that" you end up with a similar meaning:

    people that people bully bully people
I've found it fairly common to hear people drop the "that" when speaking - so in this case:
    people people bully...
the first people refers to the people being bullied while the second people refers to the people doing the bullying. It's a bit clearer if you replace some of the nouns - for instance:
    dogs people bully bully cats
which I believe is a perfectly legal English sentence.

dogs people bully bully cats

Aha! It finally makes sense. Thanks.

You should edit the wikipedia article, because your explanation is way better than the one contained therein.

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