“I’M OFFENDED” IS A DESTRUCTIVE, ANTI-AMERICAN CONCEPT

“I’M OFFENDED” IS A DESTRUCTIVE, ANTI-AMERICAN CONCEPT

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D. Traditional Realist

Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. was a progressive socialist who disassembled our functioning child rearing practices. His approach was “permissive materialism.” It has corrupted our pragmatic culture.

Today most families pamper their children but do little training on becoming an adult. The focus for the child is primarily to make sure the child is in a blissful state of ignorance. Too many youngsters are given everything they want before they even ask. Immediate gratification has become the norm. Our young adults have become mentally weak because they have no concept of sacrifice or reality.

Giving people something for nothing always has unintended negative consequences. An entire generation of children has suffered from a lack of strong family life but has not experienced any severe disaster like The Depression or war. They have not been introduced to the benefit of delayed gratification of putting off today for tomorrow when you can afford it. Many modern parents no longer attempt to teach their children to comply with rational rules and behavior. Instead they indulge their child to voice their opinions and feelings to anyone including adults regardless of how baseless and ignorant they are.

Parents are not teaching their children the moral values to be successful, but are creating people with false high esteem. These self-confident but delusional youngsters want others to comply with their feelings and thinking so they do not suffer the aggravation of confusion. There is no debate permitted in their world, as it would disturb their sensibilities. They firmly believe others should stifle their viewpoints through censorship and conform to their idiosyncratic feelings.

Like it or not permissive materialistic child rearing has prepared our children to be social change agents. Their delusional self-importance and mental weakness toward sacrifice is a conscious tactic of the progressive politicians to facilitate rapid progressive change, which leads to servitude by its inevitable loss of rational thought and freedom. Feelings have replaced critical thinking.

“I am offended” is a ludicrous statement. Who cares? Should someone be stopped by a person saying this? “Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never harm me.” This statement has been used for generations as a comeback for children.

It is our decision to listen or not to another person. When a person concludes that the other person is wrong in logic, has wrong facts or is just being nasty, he can walk away. You have a right to ignore that person from that moment on. These easily offended do not have to attend a discussion or debate by different thinking people but have no right to deny others. The best answer to the intolerance of speech is more speech.

This notion of being offended should have been summarily dismissed as absurd when it reared its foolish head. However, progressive universities and the media have condoned it as more than acceptable. It is their “right.” They have created safe spaces, provided therapeutic animals and denied different speaker’s viewpoints and finally turned a blind eye to Antifa attacking people and symbolic statues.

These ill-mannered youths insist when their feelings are hurt that people should immediately apologize and take back their comments especially when it is true. Before anyone else makes a statement they should think about the feelings of all others. The responsibility is placed on the speaker to self-censor, in order not to upset anyone in the group.

This PC self-censorship is not wise or appropriate in a nation that prides itself on freedom of speech. We are being encouraged by self-centered parents who have been raised to think they are privileged. It is allowing their child-like adolescents to also feel they are entitled to tell anyone that they are “offended” which translates into “stop all discussion on the topic” instead of saying to themselves, “Whatever!” Disagreeing with a person’s viewpoint should not allow the listener to dictate what the speaker should say. Individuals should be able to debate expressing their own opinions without being concerned about the audience reaction.

Youngsters should realize that the world does not revolve around them. Young people have to adapt to the culture not everyone else adapting to their particular wishes and feelings. All of us have to be sufficiently mature to comprehend that when a person is constantly offended the problem is theirs to overcome.  This person needs to examine through introspection how they can change instead of demanding that society should change.

Whenever a person thinks someone else is idiotic or offensive, just leave, realizing that the USA is a free speech zone. Everyone has a right to his own perspective. Our republic placed free speech as the number one amendment in the Bill of Rights for the open and free exchange of ideas as the lifeline of our country.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.