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So, you've just bought some funny t-shirts from somewhere on the Interweb. Congratulations on your new purchase! You're now ready to wear your new clothes out into the world and brighten the day of all you encounter with cheerful laughs and good times for all. You put on one of your new funny t-shirts and go to the Farmer's Market, where you plan on buying some delicious tomatoes.
Well, things are not going quite like you planned. You have succeeded in your mission of making it to the vegetable stand, but things have taken a turn for the worse. Just when you think people are about to start crowding around you, asking where you buy your funny t-shirts someone gets mad. You notice people are looking at your shirt in disgust. Control of the situation has spiraled away from you. They have grabbed their pitchforks and lit their torches. All is lost but why did they get so mad at you?
You may have the greatest taste in funny t-shirts in the whole wide world, but that will do you no good if you don't have the right audience to laugh at your wearable joke. There is a huge divide that separates the newest generation coming of age, and the eldest three generations. That divide is the unknowable gulf called the "Internet". Young people have grown up with information right at their fingertips, both good and bad. Blood, guts, cursing, and nudity helped raised our children into young adults. Now, there is no image left that could intimidate or offend for them while the older generations only use the Internet to check their AOL mail and their Ebay accounts.
You may not realize it due to your jaded nature, but your funny t-shirts could very well be offensive. If you are too jaded to figure it out, you need to look carefully at your shirts and run through a mental checklist of offensive material to make certain your shirts are safe to wear out in the real world. You also need to understand that some things that seem hilarious on a computer, may not be so funny to everyone else. Just make sure that your shirt isn't about anything sexual, offensive words, religious, or political statements. Simple, right?
The real bad thing about all of this is the lack of freedom we have in a country that is founded on free speech. Political Correctness has eroded away our ability to say whatever we want, and that's a real shame. When people are afraid to speak their mind because someone else might get offended, then we've only succeeded in silencing new ideas. So what is worse, a generation that doesn't care about being offended or a generation that imposes its will on others?
Well, things are not going quite like you planned. You have succeeded in your mission of making it to the vegetable stand, but things have taken a turn for the worse. Just when you think people are about to start crowding around you, asking where you buy your funny t-shirts someone gets mad. You notice people are looking at your shirt in disgust. Control of the situation has spiraled away from you. They have grabbed their pitchforks and lit their torches. All is lost but why did they get so mad at you?
You may have the greatest taste in funny t-shirts in the whole wide world, but that will do you no good if you don't have the right audience to laugh at your wearable joke. There is a huge divide that separates the newest generation coming of age, and the eldest three generations. That divide is the unknowable gulf called the "Internet". Young people have grown up with information right at their fingertips, both good and bad. Blood, guts, cursing, and nudity helped raised our children into young adults. Now, there is no image left that could intimidate or offend for them while the older generations only use the Internet to check their AOL mail and their Ebay accounts.
You may not realize it due to your jaded nature, but your funny t-shirts could very well be offensive. If you are too jaded to figure it out, you need to look carefully at your shirts and run through a mental checklist of offensive material to make certain your shirts are safe to wear out in the real world. You also need to understand that some things that seem hilarious on a computer, may not be so funny to everyone else. Just make sure that your shirt isn't about anything sexual, offensive words, religious, or political statements. Simple, right?
The real bad thing about all of this is the lack of freedom we have in a country that is founded on free speech. Political Correctness has eroded away our ability to say whatever we want, and that's a real shame. When people are afraid to speak their mind because someone else might get offended, then we've only succeeded in silencing new ideas. So what is worse, a generation that doesn't care about being offended or a generation that imposes its will on others?
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