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Originally Posted by senior citizen
Just found this post Rubicon. You read my mind, if truth be told.
I had been thinking along similar events such as dear friends who died of brain cancer, another who died much too young of Lupus.....wonderful mother in law who died, also way too young, of bone cancer.
I saw my elderly mom decline very slowly for a decade with dementia and alzheimers disease......as they call it, "The Long Goodbye".
Should I get upset every time someone mentions that process?
It was very very sad to experience, as I cared for her in our home.
Should I get my nose out of joint everytime someone mentions the word cancer? Not where we live. Alzheimers and dementia? I don't think so.
Every one has a story.
Like yourself, people up here value the freedom of speech. No one wants to intentially hurt someone else's feelings , however.........not everyone knows everyone elses background to tippy toe around every thought process........we'd all become mute.
My husband and I both agree that this Political Correctness is rediculous.
Our society has not changed for the better since we married in 1965.
Who has all the rights now? Not the average law abiding citizens, that's for sure.........P.C. has slanted society in a totally different direction, if truth be told.
Guess we've been adopted "yankees" way too long. Free speech is tolerated up here. We know people in all walks of life. Live and let live.
I THANK YOU RUBICON.
Truthfully, I never knew someone's relatives died from drinking Kool-Aid in Jonestown. How would I ever know that????
My frame of reference (again) was the Casey Anthony / Caylee Anthony story.........first time I ever read it "over and over again" for years.
"Don't drink the Casey Kool-Aid" or some such comments.....re "believing her".
She had the last laugh, didn't she?
(Now I suppose that will create controversy meaning that I was on her side.....when in reality all our hearts went out to that missing baby.)
I'm going to rent that movie, "The Stepford Wives".....old as it is.
Read the book back in the olden days of Ira Levin and also loved his "Rosemary's Baby". Hmmmm?
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There's quite a lot of freedom of speech on TOTV. Maybe, less in many areas of the Villages when you talk about certain topics.
Basically, I just treat people how I would like to be treated. That means trying to not deliberately offend people's sensitivities if you know that some words or phrases cause them great pain.
There was an man with what looked like a Holocaust tattoo on his arm who would come to the dog park every once in a while. He did not seem to be bothered with questions about the tattoo but almost evertwhere I heard question him did it with the utmost dignity and respect.
You never really know what some people online have been through so I do try to treat them as if they were face-to-face.