Only Kindness Matters

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The nuns beat it home when I was a kid.

“Treat others as you’d like to be treated.”

My Mom reinforced the idea.

“If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

Thought of some of that over the weekend when I read a story about a trans man being beat to death about 90 miles from here.

It’s also coming off a talk with a guy on a site who told me that “we’re allowed to say ‘retard’ and ‘faggot’ again?”

I answered him with a “Seriously, dude?”

He said, “Musk loves those words.”

Easy to dismiss the guy as a one-off, but it’s like the Nielsen ratings…

…there are a lot of people who are thrilled that they can use those words again.

And then…

…I read about the people who have lost their jobs via letter.

Many of the termination letters have language in them that say that people are being fired because of poor performance.

A group of academics lost their jobs because their jobs were considered part of the ‘woke’ movement.

They were helping blind students.

Want to talk about raking the forests?

They laid off people who help prevent forest fires, and park rangers and a whole bunch of people who work for the FAA.

As planes fall out of the sky.

But back to the kindness…

Julianne Moore wrote a children’s book about being a redhead with freckles.

A heartwarming story that was to let children know that they can still fit in…

…no matter what.

The book is on the Department of Defense’s banned list because it falls into the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion category.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Only kindness matters?

If you’re gay, disabled, deaf, blind or even freaking freckled you can be ridiculed in public, and forget any sort of financial help.

Pure nastiness.

Makes me sad.

And the news just keeps coming.

We now hate Mexicans, Canadians, Ukrainians and everyone in Europe, I guess.

Well, not ‘we’…

…I’m going to try and remain kind.

The nuns, and Mom, wouldn’t have it any other way.

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