This morning before I got out of bed I was scrolling through facebook on my phone. I came across a video shared by a friend. The video is of Ben Stein calling President Obama racist and the reactions of the women of The View to Ben's comment.
The group sharing this video centered in on Rosie O'Donnell's reaction....captioning the video with this:
Watch the video if you want.....but the video is not what drove me to write this post.
I don't want to discuss Ben or Rosie or either of their opinions here.
It's the comments on facebook that are most disturbing to me. So disturbing that I was brought to tears.
There are over 6700 comments. Obviously I did not read them all. I read more than enough though. Here is a very small sample:
So cruel. So attacking. So much hate.
In their attempt to label Rosie as a hater, their comments instead make them look like the biggest haters of all.
The comments sicken me, and they deeply sadden me.
It really scares me how divided we have become. What happened to having different political views and being able to discuss them rationally? It's becoming too common for conversations to turn to attacks. It's RED or BLUE and nothing in between. It's far too easy to rally together a mob scene these days using social media and both parties are guilty of it.
13,290 people have LIKED this facebook post and 2016 people have SHARED it. I wonder how many have read the comments and I'm frightened by how many actually support them.
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