Have we as a nation decided to accept bullying as normal?
When I went to school, it was not acceptable to say that someone was a moron. It was not acceptable to call someone ugly. It was not acceptable to make fun of veterans coming home from any war. It was not acceptable to call people crazy. It was not acceptable to make fun of people with disabilities. It was not acceptable to make fun of someone’s heritage. And on and on.
If I had stood up in a school assembly and made any one of these statements, I would have been expelled from school. My parents and I would have had to meet with the vice principal to beg for another chance and promise that I would never do it again.
Yet in a state predominantly governed by a religion that touts sympathy, compassion, kindness, love and caring, we will again vote for the man who does all of the above and reelect him as president?
And why would we do this? Because we are a great group of sheep that really doesn’t care about the black sheep, or the crippled lamb, or the one that doesn’t quite look like us, as long as we as individual sheep are taken care of.
Gregory Jones, North Salt Lake
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