“I’m Offended,” this phrase is one of the most common things we hear in today’s society. People in America today have become oversensitive. There are so many things these days that set people off and cause them go on a rampage for the smallest actions or for someone not agreeing with them. People have come to the realization that if you disagree with them that they are all of a sudden a bad person and people feel the need to have control of their words to make people be politically correct. There is a difference between just disagreeing with them and preventing someone from their freedom of speech. Being “politically correct” or “modernizations” is the use of banning words that the U.S. Government disagrees with or does not like. We do need
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Aren’t we entitled to our own opinion? America today is a country of people who get offended way too easily. As stated by Chris Queens of PJmedia, “‘over the last few years we've seen some seismic changes in our nation, and it's tough to know where it began. We used to be a society with an attitude of ‘live and let live’ and ‘agree to disagree’ toward our differences, even when it comes to the most fundamental of disagreements…In 21st century America, we suffer a sort of tyranny of the offended, having to walk on eggshells everywhere we go’’’ (Queens). America is no longer the country with attitude. These seismic changes in today’s youth, especially in college that if someone disagrees with you there is automatically something wrong with them. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion in the end of course, but when you start trying to control what someone says, just because it doesn’t agree with that a person’s opinion then there is something wrong with that person who doesn’t want to hear the viewpoint …show more content…
I agree we do need to be sensitive and considerate of other feelings of course but there’s a difference between sensitive and oversensitive. People don’t need to become offended over things that were probably never meant to be offensive. We also don’t need to get so offended when someone doesn’t agree with our opinion. If parents keep raising their kids to never talk about anything controversial or offensive because in the long run building kids up like this will ultimately hurt them because they will never know how to handle disagreements or being
Aren’t we entitled to our own opinion? America today is a country of people who get offended way too easily. As stated by Chris Queens of PJmedia, “‘over the last few years we've seen some seismic changes in our nation, and it's tough to know where it began. We used to be a society with an attitude of ‘live and let live’ and ‘agree to disagree’ toward our differences, even when it comes to the most fundamental of disagreements…In 21st century America, we suffer a sort of tyranny of the offended, having to walk on eggshells everywhere we go’’’ (Queens). America is no longer the country with attitude. These seismic changes in today’s youth, especially in college that if someone disagrees with you there is automatically something wrong with them. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion in the end of course, but when you start trying to control what someone says, just because it doesn’t agree with that a person’s opinion then there is something wrong with that person who doesn’t want to hear the viewpoint …show more content…
I agree we do need to be sensitive and considerate of other feelings of course but there’s a difference between sensitive and oversensitive. People don’t need to become offended over things that were probably never meant to be offensive. We also don’t need to get so offended when someone doesn’t agree with our opinion. If parents keep raising their kids to never talk about anything controversial or offensive because in the long run building kids up like this will ultimately hurt them because they will never know how to handle disagreements or being