Society :/

(AKA the Social Commentary blog)

I try not to care too much about anything so this blog is Hard for me.

I guess one thing I dislike about society is how judgmental people can be toward people with different opinions of their own. Many people with different opinions can get along just fine, but there are several bad apples who ruin it for everyone. I want to be able to like or dislike the president without being judged for it. I want to support or oppose abortion without being judged for it. I think that if my opinions don’t hurt or slander anyone else, I shouldn’t be judged for them. With American society, especially with political parties, one extreme side judges the other to the point of dehumanizing the other side. It isn’t very cash money. People have different cultures where different things are normal, like in Things Fall Apart, and we shouldn’t judge other people for things that go against our own cultures. 

The current trend of cancel culture is also a little bit wacky. If someone makes a mistake in the past and it is unearthed, everyone jumps on the bandwagon of judging them. Although some things are really bad and messed up, I feel like old online posts that sound a little funny shouldn’t be enough to end someone’s career. Extreme racism within the past 60ish years is a bad thing and I feel like that is a reason to judge someone, but I don’t think it’s right to try and “cancel” a popular author from the early 1900s for being racist because the times were different. I feel bad about drawing a line between what is and isn’t acceptable so it’s weird to talk about it. Overall, I just think that judging someone for an action that was normal in their time isn’t okay. Judging someone who knows better is one thing, but judging people for something that was accepted in their time is wrong.

---