Jon Stewart
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Yeah, it's too bad we fell the need to "weigh in" and pull apart everything, we judge people on their worst and refuse to forgive or let anything go.
I think most people for a long time have felt that their opinion is soooo important, like they're entitled to be offended or excited and that their opinion matters. Of course, it's not true. They don't matter.
Sadly, these days Twitter and social media are validating these opinions as relevant. A major shift was when the shitty-news (most media outlets) started to report on what people were saying on Twitter.
I mean, when you see CNN report something like "GatorFan1973 had this to say on Twitter....", how can we expect people to not feel entitled to an opinion? We're just encouraging everyone to speak up without thinking. It is this very act that has now gotten Trevor Noah into trouble: speaking publicly without pausing to think. And now, what do we do as a group? We open up Twitter and add to the noise.
Twitter and other social media is amazing and great and I'd never want to go back to the time before it. Unfortunately, it often pushes us, as a group, towards the mind-numbing average.