I've been watching the local news daily, only to hear the epithet "crack head" used again and again.
In this day and age of "political correctness", how can this be permitted?
Could it be due to the fact, most individuals addicted to crack are too busy finding ways to afford their addiction, to possess the ability to stand up for their rights?
I hope no one took a previous post I made sarcastically about addictions as literal.
There was a time when few hated "crack heads" more than I did. I had experiences with several crack addicts, and I was ripped-off by them. I felt like "killing them all", but not untill I shared a house with a real family that suffered a bad crack addiction, did my perception change. I got to know these people real good, and in many ways could relate to them much more than I could most people. I was there as their addiction got worse and worse. I saw a mother literally turn into a prostitude to support her habbit. I had to deal with neighbours knocking on my door because the same mother went door to door lying, while saying her son was dying and asking for donations she would inevitably use to buy more crack..
There is a lot of people out there going around giving "freebies" to those who don't know what they are getting themselves into. Crack is ridiculously addictive, much worse than coke, and it's easier to get around here than weed or alcohol for minors.
Political correctness is a joke. It's not about redressing injustices, it's about exploiting partisan votes. It's about taking total advantage of people who think they are standing up for their rights. Afterall, the people who have the least rights are those who are unable to stand up for themselves.
How is it logical, that hate inspiring epithets are used to denounce an entire group of people with a geniune problem, while other epithets would cause all hell to break loose if they were used on the same news program? Is this acceptable?
All this does, is make matters exponentially worse. It causes society to completley isolate and condemn people with addictions, and it causes the people with the addictions to isolate themselves, destroying any desire to seek help or hope of one day living a productive life. It does little for discouraging people from trying the drug for a first time. Rebellious teenagers may actually become more atttracted to it because of the anti-society propaganda now associated with it.
"Political correctness" seems to shine, primarily when the matter could have been easily delt with subjectively by the people who felt offended. When there is a legitimate injustice however, it seems society either turns a blind eye, or jumps on the bandwagon.
I will say this: Being hated by all of society, certainly does not create much incentive to change or better oneself. It only causes the one who is hated to become incorrigible, and often precipitates his/her subjective justification for hating the majority of society, eliminating whatever moral conflict he/she still felt while looking for ways to fuel the demon.
Perhaps, instead of spreading such hatred and frustration towards an unfortunate group of people, we should be hating only the drug, and not the people who are addicted to it.
In this day and age of "political correctness", how can this be permitted?
Could it be due to the fact, most individuals addicted to crack are too busy finding ways to afford their addiction, to possess the ability to stand up for their rights?
I hope no one took a previous post I made sarcastically about addictions as literal.
There was a time when few hated "crack heads" more than I did. I had experiences with several crack addicts, and I was ripped-off by them. I felt like "killing them all", but not untill I shared a house with a real family that suffered a bad crack addiction, did my perception change. I got to know these people real good, and in many ways could relate to them much more than I could most people. I was there as their addiction got worse and worse. I saw a mother literally turn into a prostitude to support her habbit. I had to deal with neighbours knocking on my door because the same mother went door to door lying, while saying her son was dying and asking for donations she would inevitably use to buy more crack..
There is a lot of people out there going around giving "freebies" to those who don't know what they are getting themselves into. Crack is ridiculously addictive, much worse than coke, and it's easier to get around here than weed or alcohol for minors.
Political correctness is a joke. It's not about redressing injustices, it's about exploiting partisan votes. It's about taking total advantage of people who think they are standing up for their rights. Afterall, the people who have the least rights are those who are unable to stand up for themselves.
How is it logical, that hate inspiring epithets are used to denounce an entire group of people with a geniune problem, while other epithets would cause all hell to break loose if they were used on the same news program? Is this acceptable?
All this does, is make matters exponentially worse. It causes society to completley isolate and condemn people with addictions, and it causes the people with the addictions to isolate themselves, destroying any desire to seek help or hope of one day living a productive life. It does little for discouraging people from trying the drug for a first time. Rebellious teenagers may actually become more atttracted to it because of the anti-society propaganda now associated with it.
"Political correctness" seems to shine, primarily when the matter could have been easily delt with subjectively by the people who felt offended. When there is a legitimate injustice however, it seems society either turns a blind eye, or jumps on the bandwagon.
I will say this: Being hated by all of society, certainly does not create much incentive to change or better oneself. It only causes the one who is hated to become incorrigible, and often precipitates his/her subjective justification for hating the majority of society, eliminating whatever moral conflict he/she still felt while looking for ways to fuel the demon.
Perhaps, instead of spreading such hatred and frustration towards an unfortunate group of people, we should be hating only the drug, and not the people who are addicted to it.
