Social Media is Adding to Our Country’s Divisions– Not Helping
posted by Daniel Martin | May 3, 2017 | In OpinionSocial media is everywhere now. You have Facebook, Twitter, and a host of other social media sites. The thing that is bothering me is the same reason I went dark on Facebook. I am tired of the craziness.
I am tired of, what I like to call, the “internet courage” that goes on. Now what is that, you may ask? It is simple. It’s where a person will say something on the internet that they may not say to a person or group’s face.
Social media has given people a platform to be disrespectful and say things that have no business being said. This epidemic has forced me to make crazy decisions. I, for one, am tired of the race-baiting rhetoric that fills up my newsfeed. I have deleted people from my friends’ list and even blocked people.
Don’t get me started on the anti-Trump and crazy pictures and memes people have posted. It frustrated me to see people posting a picture of his first cabinet meet that had a group of people dressed as KKK members. A person commented “so accurate,” and then followed up by saying “It’s really simple if you say racist things, and you do racist actions, you’re racist.” That whole scenario is racist in itself. Check it out, White, Black, Latino, Asian, or any other race you may be, posting that nonsense offended me.
I served in the military and never saw the color of one’s skin. We all bled the same and hurt the same. It didn’t matter who we were or where we came from. All that mattered was our brothers- and sisters-in-arms to our left and right.
I am not a Trump supporter. I don’t agree with decisions he has been making. However, I don’t think we as a nation need to keep the division going by posting the things that are being posted. If we continue with all the hateful and race-baiting rhetoric, all we are doing is hurting ourselves as a nation. Maybe it’s time for people to remember what the creators of these certain social media platforms intended its uses to be used for: being social.
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