On the campus I work on there was an assault of a young woman by two men who allegedly objected to her sexual orientation. One of the guys was 6’ tall and the other was 5’6”. Both of these men were in all likelihood stronger than the woman they attacked. This is reprehensible to me. I don’t care what the person believes or how they behave this does not give anyone the right to intimidate or attack them. If you don’t like them fine – don’t be around them.
Might has NEVER meant you were right. Just because you shout louder, hit harder, have bigger guns or have a better army doesn’t mean you get to be big man (or country) on the block. I feel we are forgetting our roots in this country. We are a bunch of rebels – descendants of people who fought against the bully of Great Britain. We fought against the injustices that the king tried to implement against us.
So why are we now trying to make everyone conform? What is wrong with the people in this country? We have gone from a country of independent thinkers to a country of conformists and religious zealots. Believe the way I believe or else we will… and you fill in the blank. Well isn’t that exactly how the Taliban thinks? Isn’t that what they are trying to do is make us conform to their beliefs?
Somehow we need to get back in touch with these roots of our and become the rebels of the past. No one should force us to conform to their way of thinking. It should be a personal choice and we should be able to respect those choices – even if we don’t agree with them.
I know it is small town Wisconsin here but it saddens and disgusts me that this happened. Where has our compassion and our sense of right and wrong gone? People can respectfully disagree – at least I believe we can. Apparently small town leads some to think they can be small minded. This is a sad statement of our society….