Warning this write up contains words that some readers may find defensive if you are affected by any other content in this you please contact literally anyone else but me.
Before i forget i’d like to say that this blog will be a bit different to normal, because it will contain a lot of opinion, but i feel so passionately about this topic that it needs to be addressed.
So if you are sensitive and easily offended kindly give this one a miss. If you have arched the news or read the papers and any social media, in recent years you have noticed a trend of a group that is offended by everything.
Whether you been a witness to it or not there is an ever growing number of ultra politically correct, far left militants, that are hell bent campaigning for a cause for people who they have never met or even never asked them to complain for them in the first place.
And no this isn’t about politics, it for more seriously than that. This is about maintaining our freedom and rights as human beings. And no, sadly am not exaggerating.
Okay, so what the hell i’m I going on about? Let me tell you about a fairly recent case that just goes to prove my point about how deadly political correctness can be. In November 2009 a psychologist working in the us army , Nidal Malik Hassan, opened fire on the other troops in the base shouting God is great in arabic. 13 people were killed. It was soon discovered that the Pentagon knew all about Hassan’s radical ideologies way before this act of terrorism. They knew about the emails he sent to together radical Muslims. Even his own colleagues at the base had expressed their discomfort about him to to others, saying he was a ticking time bomb.
So how on earth could be US government and the senior army management simply allow this mass murder to take place?
Well because of the powers that be within the US army were too afraid of being accused of racially profiling someone to take any action against him. And so because of the unyielding pressure of political correctness in the modern age, 13 people tragically had to die.
We have a snowflake, overly sensitive millennials who feel entitled to being offended. These keyboard warriors hide behind their cell phones and laptop keyboards, lashing out on everything and everyone who says something they don’t like. They crucify comedians, movies and other TV content that say anything that doesn’t go with your taste of words.
This has inevitably led to a rapid decline in creativity. And now we have to suffer through tasteless comedies and movies.
What is the true problem today? It is millennials who have in their mind the feelings of entitlement, that they believe to censor everyone. This is because, these kids most especially in the west, having grown in a time of no violence, war, of oppression and poverty, they have never known what it’s like to not have everything.
They think being offended means something, well it doesn’t. If you are offended handle it like everyone else used to or does.
Actually well let me tell you straight, being offended doesn’t mean anything it’s a natural human response. It’s ok to be offended or even disgusted. But that doesn’t mean you oppress others because they offended you. If someone calls you stupid, be mad. But doesn’t mean tweet and Facebook against people using the word stupid. That’s actually very… stupid.
And it’s also a little something we like to call OPPRESSION. I’m not talking about every young person out there. I’m simply talking about a small small minority but as is often the case in life, it’s the few that spoil it for the many.
Just because you are offended by a specific thing, it does not mean that the rest of the world should be. Because we are all unique, and may vary in difference of opinions. We don’t even have the same faiths and beliefs. And if we did have the same beliefs, that doesn’t sound like fun does it?
For example i get offended by people who drink instant coffee, that doesn’t mean I make people drink chocolate. Because that’s not right. I can’t go forcing my opinions down people’s throats. Should i care everyone out there is offended by different things? I can guarantee that, no matter what you think of, there will be someone out there in the world he finds it offensive. You can never fully police every freedom speech and people behaviours because doing so who be trying to police everyone and everything that they say. This snowflake generation, are trying to police everything. We are humans and we are allowed to be different from each other, both on ideologies and opinions. So you can’t force everyone to be like you.
I don’t know about you, but i would say that attempting to prevent people from thinking of certain way, from saying what they want and stopping them for behaving in a natural and human way is the opposite of freedom of speech.
I hope that, and a desire for free speech to be still well and alive within our society. It’s ok to be offended. But forcing it down our throats is not.
So the next time that someone get offended and complains against you for sitting the wrong way in public, for eating meat, for buying Mtura, for using gender pronoun, for openly supporting your favourite political party, for casually flirting with a stranger or just making a joke that’s not funny to them, for innocently touching another human being, for openly praying for your chosen deity, for simply earning more money than your peers, or simply because you don’t identify as a non-conforming gender fluid, pansexual cabbage. Do not stand for it, not for a moment.
Because at the end of the day, you are being yourself. And believe me, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. If simply being yourself and doing what you know, and what comes natural to you offends someone else, then it’s their problem to deal with. Don’t let them make it yours or anybody else’s.
If you have miraculously read through all that… good job and thanks for your time.
