You Know What I Miss...

(Music - This Week In Tech - Leo Laporte and the TWiTs)

I miss being able to dislike/hate a person (OK, let me finish before you grab your torches and pitchforks) based on that person's action and personality. Instead of the way it has become. Where it is chalked up to the fact of a person's race, sexual choice, gender, and even age.

The P.C. (Political Correct) pendulum has swung from the side of non-caring and indifference to the complete other side where that is all they can see. Isn't it just as bad to over examine an issue as it is to ignore it. America has turn almost everyone into a uncover racist/bigot/etc. and everyone is on alert just waiting for a person to slip, so they can nail them to the wall for it. I hear statements "It is because I am ______!" and "It is ______ people like you that are destroying the world", a whole lot more then I ever did in earlier years.

I often wonder if this will lead to a new set of "Witch Trials", where everyone is guilty just because someone has a bad feeling about a person. On the other hand, it could go to the other side of the scale and everyone gets overloaded and burned out due to every Tom, Dick and Harry claiming they have been discrimated against and no one cares one bit and we are back when we started.

(Either way, we as a people need to watch and be careful not to become one of the "paranoid people" who is ready to cry "FOUL!", because someone blinked or made a gesture that you dislike.)

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