Have you ever woken up in the morning and thought, "good morning, America. What are we offended by today?" I sure have. The minute I wake up on most days, I scroll down my news feed, and I see another argument about why people should not say this or not say that. I see that someone has said something that has somehow offended another person. Since when did everything we say become something that could be used against us? I mean, I thought this was a country where we could openly voice our opinions, and that sometimes, we could constructively critique someone else.
However, it's become such a touchy and sensitive place, a lot of people will not make their voice heard, in fear that someone, even the media, may twist what they say around to make it ugly. By all means, I am not condoning others to speak hatred and to talk down to others. However, I do think it is the land where we should be able to say things, and have a discussion with others about their opinion. It's time to accept that not everyone will have the same opinion as you, and that is fine. What's not fine is making someone feel less than you for not having the same opinion.
I get so sick and tired of seeing what this world is offended by each and every day. It's gotten to the point where people, especially young men and women, can't take any direction without getting offended by it. So what do we do? We change the way we say things, we keep softening up, until absolutely everything we say is "offensive." Well, I think it's about time that we go back to the place that we CAN say what we think.
For example, there is a video circulating of two young men fighting at a local Quik Trip, which is a PUBLIC place of business, surrounded by a crowd of people cheering them on. Not only is it wrong for both of them to be fighting and endangering those who just went to shop or fill up gas, one young man, who wasn't even involved in the fight, decides it would be comical for him to hit a man in the face who was breaking up the fight for others' safety. Suddenly, there is an outrage about the man, who was looking out for the well-being of the shoppers at Quik Trip, pushing a young man out of the way. The man who got hit in the face was the one trying to break up the fight, and rightfully so.
I am appalled that some of the comments are defending these people, who are acting like kids in kindergarten, when they have hit the man who jumped in to help. The comments are along the lines of: "That man should not have intervened in the fight. He should have waited for the authorities. He was physically abusive to that young man." So now, the tables have turned and we are blaming the man who pushed a kid out of the way that was FIGHTING. Has the world really become so sensitive that we can't even blame the bad behavior on the ones that were in the wrong? We instead blame those that did what they could before the authorities arrived.
Yes, I am ranting, but I am very tired of bad behavior being defended in the media. Where is the accountability? Why is this generation so entitled? By all means, be kind to others, be polite, but we have got to stop accepting bad behavior and twisting it around just because it might "hurt someone's feelings." It's time to stand up, grow up, and start taking responsibility for your actions.
