I sometimes listen to The Dori Monson Show while I am at work. He always ends his third hour with “Today’s Sign That The End Is Near”. This is when he will highlight a story that just shows how people are overly sensitive, PC, sue happy, etc. Today he had a story before this bit and then the story he had in the bit that just made me shake my head and wonder really!!
Story before the end - this was about an elderly gentleman in Texas who shot a man breaking into his home. The part of the story that had me shaking my head was that the burglar’s family members were outraged that this gentleman shot their family member. They were like – he should have given him a warning, let him know that he had a gun and was willing to use it – everyone has problems and he should have given the burglar a second chance. What!?!? Really!?!? This guy was breaking into an old man’s house! Whatever happened to putting the responsibility where it belongs? The guy shouldn’t have been breaking into houses.
Today’s sign was the following – A Mom back East has a 10 month old baby who has dwarfism. She was shopping at the grocery store and saw a jar of Midget Dill Pickles. This so outraged her that she started a petition online to get the company to change the name of the pickles because it was insensitive to use the word midget. The company gave in and is going to change the name because they didn’t want the media attention. Really – whatever happened to if you don’t like something then don’t buy it? The word midget has been around for a very long time and the Webster’s Dictionary definition is:
1. something (as an animal) much smaller than usual
2. sometimes offensive : a very small person; specifically : a person of unusually small size who is physically well-proportioned
See – the word is sometimes offensive if you use it to describe a person. Using it to describe a very small pickle is not offensive.
I just don’t get it. When did people become so overly sensitive?
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