But I am offended!
The new religion, for the American faux stick to sports crowd, is to be offended. Except, we can clearly see that the really offensive things are to be ignored.
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Hey Kermit.
You won’t believe what is happening in my swamp. Technically, it’s your swamp too, but I am thankful to see frog life - so far - spared from these silly people. I am sure you have heard their shrieking, because they are so, so, so offended.
The list is long:
Average fast food chicken sandwiches. A baseball game. Hockey jerseys. Pedestrian light beer. A display of colorful clothing. Even your friends at Sesame Street have heard adults being mad.
It’s the season for boycotting, canceling-then-reinstating, protesting, Bible-misquoting. Mad, sad, angry adults. Incredibly, please sit down on your pretty lily pad for this, Kermie, RAINBOWS are now bad too. They don’t like humans using rainbows on things for Pride month.
Oh Kermit. I worry for us, and for you. You indoctrinated me, at an early age, about how pretty rainbows are, how nice other people who don’t look, sound, or act like me can be, and that we should be kind to others. Profound concepts when I was 3, but apparently now very scary things five decades later.
(Hmmm. Sounds kind of like a WWJD situation, Kermit. Were you preaching orthodoxy to me without my parents’ consent? Is this stealth frog evangelism?)
The crowd that loves to embed American flags into their socials, cherrypick the Bill of Rights to serve their needs, and opine about why their religious freedom and morality need to be enforced for everybody are in their high season right now. It’s another U.S. Congressional/Presidential election cycle ramping up (spare me now, I haven’t recovered from the last decade of insanity), sports teams/leagues being accused of being too “woke”, and the people who want to ban books also seek to cancel Pride nights for sports teams because their religious sensitivities are being triggered.
Kermit, this is nuts. What are we going to do?