Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 01/10/18> I love how people can get so “offended” ….

I have always been known to be a person who knows how to yank people’s chains or stir the pot of excrement. The fact is, I may have even offended some people with the title to this daily dose or even with my opening sentence. If you’re scratching your head right now on trying to figure out what is going on well, that makes two of us. So let’s just see how many ways these few sentences I’ve written thus far could have offended people.

The title is a great place to start, so we’ll start there.

People now a day’s get offended over two things; nothing and everything. So when I even mention the word “offended” and don’t say what it is that might be offensive, well that is downright offensive in itself because I have listed “nothing”, which is one of the two things that offend people. So it was easy to get the people who get offended over “nothing” offended because that is exactly what I pointed out; nothing.

The people who get offended over everything I’m sure I took care of offending with my opening sentence.

Yanking people’s chains has surely got to do with slavery, so I must be a racist. Here is where it might get a little tricky and I don’t want to lose any of you who may not have been reading my stuff since back in September of last year. Yes, I am a racist, I didn’t know I was one but after close examination of the definition of the word “race” and given my background, I self identified as a “racist”, for clarity and in my defense of being a racist I have included the link to that post here, I hope you will read it before you kick me to the curb from your reading list.
https://steemit.com/humor/@sultnpapper/i-hate-to-admit-but-i-just-found-out-i-am-a-racist

But even if the chains comment didn’t offend, surely I got some people offended using the word “excrement” instead of “shit”. For those folks I do offer my sincere apology, it was kind of chicken shit on my part to change a well known expression by substituting words in the expression. Words, sayings and expressions that have been around a long time shouldn’t be messed with by people like me.

So what in the hell as gotten the old man to where we are today, and just where the hell are we going? Those are both good questions and I happen to have the answers forth coming.

I don’t know if ya’ll happened to see some “controversial “ picture that a company called H&M used in a recent advertisement for a hoodie that they make and sell. Well it seems to have sparked quite a dumpster fire in the cyber space Tuesday, the only reason I happen to know about it is because I saw the thing posted over on Sola on Tuesday.

A Sola user named Yasser Attia posted what looked like a screen shot of someone else’s phone that showed a picture of a young black kid wearing a green hoodie . Now I have seen plenty of young kids wearing hoodies, in fact I bought my youngest boy a hoodie for Christmas from Bass Pro Shops, so kids and hoodies aren’t an issue. The particular hoodie did have a saying on the front that seemed to be the “problem”, it read “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle”.

OMG, how racist can H&M be? A black kid wearing a hoodie and referring to a monkey and jungle? Yep, I saw it with my own eyes and you can too if you haven’t already seen it, just go over to Sola and look up old Yasser Attia. I’ll try to link it here, but no guarantees. The caption on the screen shot said the person was “offended” and would not be working with H&M anymore.

Well the first comment on Yasser's post came from a person who goes by “FunkyF” and it set the tone for a discussion on racists and racism. I happen to agree with FunkyF, people who see racist everywhere are racists, maybe not in their minds, but they sure the hell are in mine. If they are not racists and I’m wrong then they surely have other mental issues is all I’m going to say. Yasser was laying in the weeds so to speak and fired back at FunkyF, “Are you serious? So you don’t find this racist? Making a black kid wear a shirt that says coolest MONKEY in the jungle.”

FunkyF responded back with what I feel is a very good reply, “Yasser Attia, I think that black kid is NOT monkey and I think anyone can wear this T-shirt because anyone is NOT monkey. So you have a different opinion?”
It was at this point I had to jump in on the action, being that I am smart and I can be an ass at times, so why not throw a smart ass, but correct, comment in on this dumpster fire. “Absolutely and should be offended, nobody uses the word “coolest” anymore it should be “baddest” for sure.” That comment got no response back from Yasser, whom I’m pretty sure thought I was siding with by using the opening of “Absolutely and should be offended” , but it was not the case. I agreed with FunkyF, but I don’t think FunkyF realized it, I got no comment back from FunkyF either.

That comment though was well received by the Sola community at large, it received 9 AP which over here at steemit would equate to nine up votes. It currently has the most AP of any comments on this card, as posts are called over there.

I went back later in the evening and happened to pick up on the discussion. Someone named Snowglimmer had notified us that H&M “has withdrawn the pic in the meantime”. To which Yasser commented “Which means they admit they did wrong” Well Snowglimmer wasn’t buying in on the racist part of it , and the tweet that H&M tweeted didn’t admit to anything racist. They just said that the image of their hoodie was wrong, deeply sorry, and they got it wrong.

Which surely makes my position correct, coolest was not the right choice of words, “baddest” would have been more appropriate. Now before you go and try and tell me that “baddest” isn’t a word, go hang around a playground where kids from all walks of life are playing and you will hear “baddest” used in several conversations . I like to play basketball and I go to the local park every now and then and shoot hoops with these teenagers, T-Bone doesn’t like it, but I’ve been told by some that I’m the “baddest old man” that has played with them. Baddest means good for those of you who aren’t up on hood basketball lingo.

I get really tired really fast hearing people scream racist and racism. The wife and I used to refer to the kids as monkeys all the time because they liked to climb our trees when they were young. I purposely left the lower branches so they could climb the trees. It wasn’t uncommon for them to fall every now and then, which led to either the wife or I saying,”monkey down”, which meant “you go check on them’ and make sure they are OK.

That young black kid in that photograph had to have a parent or guardian who contracted with H&M either directly or indirectly through an agency. It is pretty safe to assume that the young kid was paid to wear the hoodie, I am guessing that the hoodie and the saying wasn’t a problem with whoever represented the boy and cashed the check. So if the parents or guardian would allow him to wear it and be photographed knowing that it was being used for advertising why should anyone have a problem with it?

They shouldn’t and there in lays the problem; people don’t mind their own business. That statement I made may not even be correct any longer now that I look at it, because all to often people who are “offended” are suing or being paid off to go away and leave companies alone when the “offended “ start making a stink of things. Being paid would qualify it as a business I guess.
The claim of racism has in fact become a form of corporate extortion for some folks, Jesse Jackson is a master at this and so is Al Sharpton just to name a couple.

Can any of you please offend me so I can extort some steem from you? Please?
Until next time,
@sultnpapper

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