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Ok now I am definitely getting cancelled. Actually no, because the strongest words nouns and adjectives in the English language are now meaningless. They are used millions of times a day to say hello, good bye I dont agree with you. Those are the new meanings of I love you, racist and Nazi.

I was talking to my sister yesterday we were discussing how our parents generation really didnt say I love you at all. I thought it was just my Dad to me because men had to be tough. We have all heard of that syndrome, or whatever you call it. I always thought he said it to my sisters but he didnt. I assumed that my mom said it, but my sister pointed out that my mother didnt either. Oh well I’ll go sign up for another 20 years of psychotherapy.

But isnt it absurd how this generation trivializes love? I cant begin to tell you how many seminars, Lifespring, Forum, EST, Anthony Robbins and pretty much every other self help seminar the word is used as often as the word “the” or “and”. Maybe thats how they get “buy in” and I literally mean “buy in”

I would like to take a survey of the people who spend thousands of dollars on “seminars” whose parents never said ” I love you” or who dont feel loved. Maybe they happily pay for that psudo experience for that “bought and paid for family” Dont we all want to be part of a group?

PS I am guilty too. I actually dont like the typical “sign off” of ” I love you” Or ” I love each and every one of you” You dont even know any of us. But I do love to learn, think, analyze write, ruminate and try to come up with my own creative thoughts and ideas.

If you are ending every conversation with acquaintances with “I love you’ or “love ya” what do you call what a mother feels for her child that she carried for 9 months, nursed for a year and would die for? Are you saying that what you feel for these people you just met at a seminar is the same feeling articulated by the exact same word as what that mother would happily sacrifice her life for?

Are you saying that you would happily sacrifice your life for these people that you barely know? Because if not either you are lying or you have completely trivialized that word and shame on you. Granted my parents could have been more demonstrative. But trivializing vocabulary isnt helping anyone.

Calling everyone a Nazi is such an insult to the people who’s parents or ancestors died in concentration camps. Calling everything and everyone a racist is equally insulting to real racism. I cant believe that I have never seen real racism. But my stomach turns when I hear stories of it. I grew up in Teaneck New Jersey. Look it up. We were the first town in the United States to voluntarily integrate in 1965. Sorry Kamala way ahead of you. I didnt even notice. Maybe it was because my parents were so normal.

Supposedly I lived to the west of the proverbial rail road tracks. But I am pretty sure the doctor that lived 2 doors away was black. That is how insignificant it was to me. Most of my friends just happened to be black because I played basketball and got along better with the people I did things with. Life is just not that complicated. My parents never discussed anything racial so as far as I was concerned everyone was just everyone. To this day I barely notice what “color” someone is.

Unless of course I am watching CNN or MSNBC then it is relentlessly pounded into our head. Sorry people. I have numerous incidents where someone actually asked me what race someone is and I have no clue. Joe Scarborough said of course we are all racist, I had the confederate flag in my bedroom wall. No Joe we are not all racist. I had the Black Liberation flag on my bedroom wall and a poster of Eldridge Cleaver. Its just a matter of what you are or were exposed to. My cousin gave me those things and the book Soul on Ice. So I had a different experience growing up. Maybe I have to remember there are real racists in this world, like Joe Scarborough and a certain president that eulogized a klu Klux Klan member. Who would do such a horrific thing?

I remember when I lived on 59th st I bought a halogen bulb at the lighting store one block from my home and when I got home I immediately called because it didnt work. They asked me who was at the retgister was it a black guy? I said I dont know. I remember he was funny and we had a laugh. But I honestly have no clue what color he was. Sorry. They said that was the black guy. Oh well, again sorry I didnt notice. I only remembered that he was funny.

Oh well sorry I segued. But my point is stop ruining the meaning of words. Love is used to describe one of the strongest feelings one human being can have for another to the point where they would gladly give their life. Racist is the most despicable form of divisiveness that one can possibly have for no reason whatsoever. It is ignorant and disgusting. You might as well hate someone because their ring finger is longer than their middle finger. It is just evidence of a disgusting human being. And of course lets not forget that the Nazis were absolutely abhorrent in their inhuman atrocities. The more you use a word when it is not applicable you weaken the meaning of the word.

Love should only be used in context of someone you would give your life for. Racist is someone who should be banished to live on an Island by themselves until they learn how to live with other human beings. A Nazi should have been put to death for their crimes. If you are not using your vocabulary correctly you are the problem.