Recently, one of our local news personalities ended a segment with the phrase "Stop the meanness."
I believe the piece was about a motorist going at an officer, but it could almost apply to anything lately.
When did we start becoming so universally antagonistic to each other? It seems like every day there's another protest, Twitter beef, attack, or something someone's offended by. Always accompanied by the usual classless insults and, of course, the people who seem to show up and make things worse by being like those kids on the schoolyard who would chant "Fight, fight, fight!" Only now it's like "Retweet, retweet, retweet", maybe?
Have people just generally reverted to being a bunch of whiny four-year-olds??
Like this weekend. I'm reading the news about the gun control protests in the States, and right below are stories about representatives from the NRA and certain media outlets slinging insults at those involved. That's right, grown adults bullying kids (and others) for not wanting to die!
But that's just one specific example. This whole "culture of meanness" seems to be a worldwide thing. People need to grow up and stop it before someone decides to sling nukes instead of insults.
Just be kind, respect people's opinions and choices and, if you can't, then at least try to keep quiet and relax.
Cheers!
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