Sunday, November 20, 2011

Not to say that I am taking the side of this author; however, I do believe I understand where he/she is coming from. I too have thought numerous amounts of times about why it was, IN MY OPINION, that people, the media and government entities often focus a great part of their attention on what I believe should only entertain an infinitesimally small sum of it. Then again who am I to define what is important and what is not for the world? I am no one; which is why I unlike this author keep my soliloquies as just that, soliloquies. With all due respect to all the hatred that can (and probably did) arise from every syllable in that article, I truly believe that this author’s greatest mistake was to express their personal opinion as a statement. No one in their right mind is going to allow to be spoon-fed a bunch of bullshit (by their definition of course) by someone who’s own opinion creates a tangent to theirs.

I do not believe there is anything wrong with forming any opinion about any subject because if I would then I would in doubt be doing the exact same thing I pronounce he/she to be guilty of. The author is entitled to believe and say whatever they so please, maybe they shouldn’t have damaged the credibility of the Daily Trojan editors along the way, but that’s beside the point. I don’t believe I should feel hatred, happiness or any other emotion that corresponds to the allegations coming from this article. Wouldn’t that just be following the normative?

1 comment:

  1. The author is entitled to her opinion (that's a given), of course, considering that was an opinion piece for the Daily Trojan. So do we, as readers, hence the assignment to critique it in an authentic way -- which wouldn't be normative, right?

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