Remember the big Cockerel that had a stutter?
Didn't go much on tweety pie in the cage, probably cos it was yellow and I'm offended by it

i bet you didn't like gumbie either

Gumbie? Was he a cotton picker?

Hi, just got around to checking the discussion on this.

The issue is with the mindset.
Its the same mindset that proclaims a picture of a gun is a threat. It is the ability of some people to make an issue out of a non-issue because their world exists in a negative mindset.
It involves what they do with the issue in their mind and how they perpetuate the negativity to the world around them.

For some reason (media overload) people have started thriving on negativity.
Spread the hate.
Spread intolerance.
Spread the issues.

The world has become reactive to negativity.
There are many people that carry around a lot of anger over things they never personally experienced.
Existing in a perpetual state of readiness to do battle over their perceived beliefs.
Its an aggressive stance that prohibits unity.

A viscous circle that gathers as it spins.

Negative mindset, negative actions, negative interpretations, negative mindset, negative actions, negative interpretations and on and on and on.

Its not as much what they wrote as it is the reason they felt they needed to write it. They saw a negative where no negative existed until they created it.

The modern world is in a constant state of offense just waiting for something to allow it to manifest. If a negative is expected all that is found will be negative.

As for blacks and slavery, the current generations should be proud of what they have accomplished and the advancements of equality but most choose to be angry over it and self-destruct thru the negative mindset. Their negativity takes hold with others in a negative mindset.

Unity can't happen because negative people can't accept unity. It involves letting go of their negativity and people can't imagine a world without it.

You are NOT messing with yellow are ya? We had this discussion before

Not sure who you were talking about but I think it is Sylvester the cat

Gumby pfft

I'm offended by wool. Those damn wool turtle neck sweaters irritate the crap out of my neck.

Well Big Tex is going up now for the state fair. He is a statue and wears cotton.

Sylvester, that's the one!
Yellow is beginning to grow on me.
Those turtle necks are very offencive sunset!
I'm offended by the labels in clothing, they are irritating , it all started when the Indian and Chinese factories started using 13 year old children for labour, the 6-7 year olds were much better at sewing!

I am offended by tea...damn Brits

I knew that. You dumped tons of it in the river didn't you?

What a tea party it was!

I hate crumpets too

Crumpets is slang for petty girls here!
I love them with butter and jam on, ...no silly, not the girls, the crumpets

Well now I am offended by your Brit humor

there are two seperate issues, people who ALwAYs see the negative or people who intentionally avoid aknowledging or seeing it by only finding the potential positive or blessing in every situation ...


going back to the slaves, they could have CHOSEN to be happy, of course, but SHOULD they have chosen that?



they could have CHOSEN to see the positive, for example with room and board. And remained in slavery because of their choice to intentionally avoid seeing anything negative.

but that is only an idealistic self defeating standard
indeed, that is merely assimilating to mistreatment for some ill conceived idea of staying 'positive'

one is not worth the other

the world is not ALL good or ALL Bad, why encourage people to pretend on either extreme

without communication, the good and the bad, things don't progress and often REGRESS

no, people need to speak up when something has bothered them and unity can be achieved when their voices are willing to be heard and acted upon,

not when their voices are encouraged to stay quiet accept for the purpose of embellishing reality to keep other people feeling comfortable and 'unified'

I agree that along with open communication comes an ease with which to live in one fantasy of conspiracy/paranoia, or the other fantasy of kumbaya everyone just be grateful and never offended and we will all be so happy together...

Balance is key. Say whats wrong , hopefully respectfully,

so that it can be acted upon, one way or another.

I'm off, have a good evening,I'll check in the morning to see if you have this cotton thing sorted

Done with the cotton thing. My target is the Brits...and don't mess with Big Tex

Sweet crumpet dreams

Look forward to it, I'll pick up a dictionary in the morning just so I get my words right

I understand what you are refering to but you are missing what I am refering to because your mindset is in defense of an implied negative.

I know fully that the world is full of negative people doing negative things. Expecting positive is not delusional. It is a way to take negative things and turn them around to affect a change for unity and positive growth.

Complaining without offering a positive solution does nothing but perpetuate the negative. Then arguing for complaining further sets it all deeper into the negative.

Its all set into the personality which transfers to the actions done. To look at a wrong in a way that positively affects a change removes the negative mindset. One is better able to affect a positive change if they are not looking for reasons to complain.

Its like workplace safety.
There are those that say, "Accidents Happen" they accept that accidents happen and they do in fact happen.
Then there is the discipline that says, "Accidents Don't Just Happen"
They develop a mindset in the employees that allows them to make a consious positive effort to prevent acciddents before they can 'just happen'. Those workplaces are accident free because they make them accident free.

In this OP, there was an intentional negative outcome because someone wanted to make a non-issue an issue to promote negativity as a way to gain fame.

There are a lot of people that DON'T get offended over little things, that point is driven home in most of the replies in this thread. However, there are people that thrive on negativity and make non-issue things a major issue that demands a sane response.

Since people are different in how they express themselves you get responses of various content.

MsHarmony, I'm sure you are a good person but it seems that you have a desire to argue the negative at any opportunity. You could just be playing devil's advocate but why would you want to on every topic? The devil's advocate is a negative mindset.

Most every topic in politics here is a need to perpetuate a negative and people do just that. Left, Right, Democrats, Republicans, Trump, Obama, Clinton and on and on. Its just so damn negative and depressing. Damn is the correct word because negativity is certainly not a blessing.

I am not defending my mindset any more or less than anyone here. And why is that a bad thing? Is there a negative mindset causing you to dispel the reality of someone feeling offended?

Id say, it is off balance to only expect or aknowledge positive or to always take anything negative and attempt to turn it into a positive.


IT is OFF BALANCE.

thats all I am saying.

the persons in question felt a certain way and they shared it. Its really not the big deal its being made out to be. Its not about hate. Its not about a 'negative' mindset. its about seeing what we see, from our lens of experiences,, be they NEGATIVE things or positive things.

Id say that by posting her experience and his dismissive response she did 'affect' a change. Thank goodness he was open to taking part in that by acknowledging what they felt.

ID say you are incorrect to state there was a 'intentional negative outcome' Why was it negative? IS that a negative 'mindset' that perceives the outcome that way.. or maybe it can be twisted into a positive respect to the person who actually aknowledged anothers feelings?

and the definition of 'little things' is entirely dependent upon who you are talking to,, correct?

So, if I think a flag is a little thing and dont give it 'proper' respect, maybe thats because its a 'little thing' to me, but maybe to others due to their history and experiences it is actually a BIG THING to them?

Tom you also seem like a good person, but it seems you have a desire to SEE only when I argue a 'negative'. Like many others here, you seem to have tunnelvision where this is concerned. People post many things here. I post many things in this thread. People disagree but when I disagree a few select folks here put that on their list and refuse to see ANYTHING else I post.



I agree most the political topics are perpetuating negative. I would like to see more BALANCE myself than all the all or nothing rhetoric that perpetuates the double standards of political bashing and discussion.