We all are suppose to be "mainstream" and we are all suppose to be "normal" but what are these? To be average, there has to be a group that is below average and one that's above average. Superiority is a given. We are stopped to "stay out of trouble," but who determines what's wrong?
If we didn't have someone to do what we consider horrible jobs, someone would still have to do them.
Our society is the first to judge other members in it based on the middle class values. Who decides these values? The middle class, I hate to tell you doesn't.
Deviant
We are all deviant. We all do stuff other people don't appreciate; if we didn't we would be essentially robots. Some people are in a sense. However; why subscribe to a set of values most people share if they are terrible. If you hate gay people (I think of this example after some religious official announced that gays should 'die out'), you have a right to be smacked maybe. As a country we aren't very supportive of gays. But we are also against them being in our military. If you want to go serve in the military and risk your life for this country I don't care who you are thank you! I don't care who is defending me, I can sleep tonight.
Following what norms and values are taught to you are great.
Christopher Columbus didn't listen when they said the world was flat.
Ben Franklin didn't listen when he was told his inventions wouldn't work.
The civil rights movement worked because people stopped listening to the Jim Crow laws.
Women's suffrage worked because they realized that the laws were unfair and they started to challenge the ideas.
You are reading this because I have a right to say this. Because along the way, free speech was acquired for me through people being "deviant" being labeled as "criminal" and standing up in what they believe in.
Never judge people based on labels. We each are trying to find who we are and what we believe in. So, don't believe in everything you read, hear, or see. There may just be more to it than you think.
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