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They Cannot Offend You. They can only try.
2020-06-01, 3:45 pm

WARNING!!!! If you know me personally, you may read my diary, but if you do, you take the chance of reading things you don't want to know, misunderstanding what I've written and being hurt by it. If you are unsure if it is okay to read, save yourself, and me, the grief and heartache, and ask first!!! Please note that this is a DIARY, I.E. my subjective feelings, hearsay, suppositions, and outpourings of ranting of the moment. It does not represent objective news, the whole of what I think of a topic or someone, or even a thought-out representation of any of the above. This I hope you keep in mind, and thank you for reading.

(Back story: A black man was choked to death by a racist white cop. America shoot in uproar, burning police stations, looting Target...and many police in many cities knelt with them, stood with them. Hateful and insulting words thrown around when the protest is peaceful...intolerance cannot be met with tolerance anyway...so it is heated. But there are still people speaking out against those trying to speak out, even peacefully. The peace ought to be disrupted. People need not be hurt, of course. Nobody needs to die because of these protests. Nobody should. But armed gunmen stormed the Michigan capitol...fighting for haircuts...met with no resistance...Black Lives Matter, fighting over the injustice (the bystanding officers who watched this lynching have still not been arrested)...are met with much resistance...but not by all).

Here’s the problem: Trigger warning...

“If you don’t believe what I believe, you deserve to burn alive.” THIS is an “I’m right: You’re wrong!” sentiment. It’s closed-minded. What we see is people who hold their beliefs and all that they love SO close to their hearts...that anyone who opposes ANYthing is attacking their identity, their self, who they are.

When I kneel to the flag (I’d turn my back on it just to symbolically stand with everyone else), I’m NOT standing for the America I see. I see hate, and it starts with this entitlement. This is what racism is, this elitism. This is what sexism is, this superiority.

This divide in this country seems like it is right down the middle, but it isn’t. It starts with these convictions. You love America...so ANYone who kneels to the flag is saying something about your love? No.

Respect ends with acceptance of each other. Thaaaaaat’s it. Beyond me accepting you, hateful and insulting or not, your hateful and insulting words are not respectable, nor do they deserve respect. You still do, however. No matter what you say, I will stand up for your right of free speech. But NOT your freedom of reach. You will not get to me. Don’t let anyone else get to you.

NOBODY can offend you. They can only try.

NOBODY can make you feel offended. They can only try.

Now...recognize those who do try. Kneeling to the flag. Is it really all about YOU?! Are they trying to offend YOU?!

You can choose to be offended by them...or you can choose to understand why they’re offended. It isn’t the flag that offends them. It isn’t America that offends them. It’s these plot devices that offend the overall story. The story of America is still being written. Make it a good one. And try to enjoy it with the rest of us. The choice is awareness and ignorance. You don’t have to play along. You can opt out.

But silence is violence, too. Self-preservation, though it may be, it’s a selfish-endeavor. Blame is a selfish-endeavor, especially aimed against those who refuse to stay silent. You didn’t hear them...when they were.

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