{"id":10854,"date":"2020-07-22T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=10854"},"modified":"2020-07-22T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:57:05","slug":"lets-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=10854","title":{"rendered":"let&#8217;s fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do we really have to fight about everything?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do we always have to make it political?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cHow can you be ok with that? You\u2019re off in your own little world; get up to speed! C\u2019mon&#8230; It\u2019s the 21st century \u2014 get with the times! Don\u2019t you realize your lack of diversity is offensive to me? Do you not even see us? Are you color blind?!\u201d <br> <br> \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be kidding me. I appreciate diversity; we&#8217;re just a homogeneous collection. There\u2019s no need be different. We\u2019re in our own space, hurting no one; hence, my silence equates to zero complicity! We work well together in our own little jar of the world, so-to-speak. You have a right to your own jar, too!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI do not understand you! You make no sense! Can\u2019t you see that there\u2019s clearly only one right way to do this? Your opinion is insulting to me! Offensive, in fact! For years we\u2019ve heard people say \u2018the best way is up\u2019? How can you not see how that applies here?!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cJust because people say things doesn\u2019t make it right. If everyone ran off a cliff, would you join them? Geesh. Resist the tribal mentality, dude. The right way is down. Clearly, always down! And if you can\u2019t see that, then there\u2019s no reason for me to spend any more time or energy on you. When you finally come around, let me know. Until then you are unworthy of my attention. Better yet, you are simply unworthy!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cPeople say whatever they want to \u2014 \u2018fake news\u2019! It doesn\u2019t care if it doesn\u2019t make sense. So what? Those other people are lying to you. Cancel them! Cancel, I say! And you are so ignorant, stupid \u2014 yikes \u2014 even deplorable! There is no way that can taste ok! You are filling yourself up with completely asinine rhetoric!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cStop. Just stop. You think I\u2019m wrong? Look what you\u2019re buying into! Look what you\u2019re ignoring! Have you lost your mind? \u2026 your sense of reason? You\u2019re all filled up with such shallow slogans \u2014 low calories, too. I am so done with you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And just like that we <strong>fight.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We make all things political\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2026 mask, no mask\u2026 open, close\u2026 standing, kneeling\u2026&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We even determine our own advocacy or rejection based on who else supports or denounces it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hmmm&#8230;.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seems we\u2019re losing the prudence of individual thinking and perspective. Tribal speak has veiled our awareness of the wisdom in compromise. People keep advocating for something lesser\u2026 advocating for the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think I\u2019m not so semi-humble with each of the above?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record, I was talking about creamy vs. chunky peanut butter, the latest Charmin roll placed up or down, and of course, whether Miller Lite is actually \u201cless filling\u201d or \u201ctastes great.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respectfully\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AR<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we really have to fight about everything?&nbsp; Do we always have to make it political? \u2026 \u201cHow can you be ok with that? You\u2019re off in your own little world; get up to speed! C\u2019mon&#8230; It\u2019s the 21st century \u2014 get with the times! Don\u2019t you realize your lack of diversity is offensive to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=10854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;let&#8217;s fight!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10857,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions\/10857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}