Civil Discourse Might Be Dying
I’ll write a letter
I live in a small town with big hearts, but small minds. Where you could joke that everyone is related to everyone else and it might just be true. Where the world is so small— until, something controversial grasps the entire country and then unresearched opinions turn to gospel.
It takes everything in me to stay quiet because any opinion that was not verified by social media, falls on deaf ears. I am ashamed to say, for this reason, I am contributing to the death of civil discourse and it kills me — so I’ll write a letter that I’ll never send, in hope that someone else will take up the mantle.
“Dear fellow community member,
While this is your page and your post, it’s also in the Community Group, for which you are the Administrator and not just a participant, whose rules state that to post, it must be about the area of CKL.
But you are right, this protest is something that affects us all — let’s be honest you could have just posted this to your wall like you suggested we do with our own opinions, but you didn’t.
You put it out into an open forum. Facebook isn’t your living room. It’s a public place. Sure you requested positive comments, but you unknowingly (maybe you did know) shut down an important part of freedom of speech: civil discourse.
