Remember one of Aesop’s
Fables ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’?
The story is about a shepherd boy who constantly yells to the villagers
a wolf is attacking his flock. He does this so much to get attention that
finally the villagers quit believing him. When a real wolf does attack no one
comes to his rescue.
That is what I think is happening today in our culture with people
getting all butt hurt over a perceived slight or offense and it gets blown way
out of proportion.
White male
Middle class
Black
Jew
Muslim
Catholic
Christian
Thug
Gay
Lesbian
Transgender
Poor
CEO
Rich
Inner city
Women
Fat
Autistic
Liberal
Conservative
Why the labels?
If you are a fat, black, transgender from the poor inner city who worked
your ass off and became CEO of a company and became rich and have mainly white
males working for you because they were the most qualified and you converted to
Judaism, have an autistic daughter and a thug son, you vote conservative but
you are an asshole.
You are an ASSHOLE! That is the label you have to own. You don’t even
have the right to be offended if someone calls you that because it is the
truth. You are an American Asshole! OWN IT!
The rest of the labels should not matter and we have to stop the
insanity of using those descriptive labels to pretend to be offended and create
a stink about it when the only label should be “asshole”.
Or criminal.
Or rude person.
Or mean person.
Or…..oh well, you get the picture.
We need to have personal accountability and it not matter the color of
skin, how we voted, our religion, etc.
I will not intentionally offend someone but then I don’t surround myself
with people who limit themselves with that first list of labels. They also are
not the kind of people who would pretend to be offended just because it may be
the popular thing to do.
