Oh, I don’t
give a damn about the color of it. What
gets me is how it seems to be getting thinner and thinner all over the damn
world. And that somehow lots of people
are OK with that.
The Charlie
Hebdo attacks were a direct result of this thin skinnedness – which is viewed as
appropriate in the Koran apparently. At
least enough Muslims support this with their own thin skins, that terrorists
feel comfortable acting in the open.
Then there’s
the inability of the White House to say the words “Muslim” and “Terrorist” in
succession. Screw the body count –somebody
might get their feelings hurt!
And my
personal last straw today – Lena Dunham of “Girls” fame, announcing that “Deranged
Neo-Cons” make twitter an unsafe emotional space. Twitter is about free speech, not emotional safety. That’s something adults are expected to
provide for themselves or if they can’t, to ask for and ACCEPT help.
Freedom you
see, seldom has much to do with safety.
It’s more important than that.
And if anyone else wants the freedom to be an idiot, they have to let me
be an idiot in turn. That’s it, my whole
argument. But many, many people can’t
handle that anymore. Including the
President, apparently. It’s sad.
How it is
that being so thin skinned that any idiot can goad you into fits is somehow
safer than working up a little tolerance and self-control is beyond me. If you run around wearing a sign that says “PLEASE
– DON’T KICK ME” sooner or later someone is going to kick the hell out of you
for their own personal amusement. Might
even be me. I’ve had a few less than noble
moments in my life.
Seems
European Muslims are finding themselves in this spot now. It’s probably overdue because the longer it
goes on, the bigger the price for stopping it.
No go zones and separate laws will not fly.
Anyway, we
ALL could use some thicker skins.
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