Jingoistic Hysteria
Like the rest of the world, my office has been tuned into CNN and other news sources pretty much nonstop since Tuesday’s horrific terrorist assaults on New York and Washington D.C. Late yesterday, an email circulated around the office. It read:
Subject: FW: Wear Red White and Blue Thursday pass it along
To honor the men and women who died and those who risk their lives to save lives…let’s wear red, white and blue on Thursday to work and drive with your lights on…God Bless America and all of you who care. Please send this to as many people as possible.
An American
All very fine and well, all things considered.
Flash forward to this morning. Since several members of my department didn’t happen to have clothes that were red, white, and blue, they came in their everyday work clothes…
…and were lambasted for not being patriotic, or for not supporting the men and women who lost their lives.
That’s just not right to say.
It’s the height of arrogance to assume or assert that just because somebody isn’t following the actions of the "cult of sympathy" that they don’t care!
Especially in this time of crisis, we need to each be thankful and mindful of the people still around us in our lives, not driving "us-versus-them" wedges into each other.
Discuss. 
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