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Things I don't like
Apr. 14th, 2010 02:10 pm1. Ganging up on someone, named and identified, for the purpose of publicly making fun of them on the internet, is called cyber bullying. Like I tell my children, it doesn't matter what they did to provoke you. What matters is your response. This goes for adults as well as children.
2. Identifying someone who is doing something you think is wrong by their race or beliefs or supposed legal status is racism. Any person can (and does) do things wrong sometimes. That shouldn't be construed as a reflection of an entire group.
3. Likewise, just because someone has a particular religion or lives in a particular part of the country, you cannot assume that you know their political leanings. Unless they have told you, do not assume that you know what they are thinking politically. (On the other hand, it can be fun to announce into a room of people of one persuasion that you are the other. They don't take you for granted any more.)
4. Other things that make me ill: guns and gossip. No, I don't feel safer knowing that the person next to me in the line at the store is carrying a gun. They are made to kill people. Not to grow flowers. And gossip might not be carried in a holster, but it can be deadly in other ways.
It's a beautiful day and I wish I didn't have to think about any of these things. I'm not personally experiencing them--just observing them around me. They still make me feel icky.
Instead, I want what Kristy Dempsey says in her poem EVERMORE.
2. Identifying someone who is doing something you think is wrong by their race or beliefs or supposed legal status is racism. Any person can (and does) do things wrong sometimes. That shouldn't be construed as a reflection of an entire group.
3. Likewise, just because someone has a particular religion or lives in a particular part of the country, you cannot assume that you know their political leanings. Unless they have told you, do not assume that you know what they are thinking politically. (On the other hand, it can be fun to announce into a room of people of one persuasion that you are the other. They don't take you for granted any more.)
4. Other things that make me ill: guns and gossip. No, I don't feel safer knowing that the person next to me in the line at the store is carrying a gun. They are made to kill people. Not to grow flowers. And gossip might not be carried in a holster, but it can be deadly in other ways.
It's a beautiful day and I wish I didn't have to think about any of these things. I'm not personally experiencing them--just observing them around me. They still make me feel icky.
Instead, I want what Kristy Dempsey says in her poem EVERMORE.
