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Welcome, welcome back to Tweetswad. Today is National Decency Day. Let's talk about it. Let's get started.
You may be asking yourself, what is National Decency Day? And it is a day that basically celebrates basic standards of civility. You know, the kind that every American deserves. Decency is a nonpartisan grassroots movement launched to inspire decency in everyday life.
And when we say everyday life, we're talking about conversations, actions, social media, like OMG, that is a groundbreaking idea that social media could actually be decent. But by raising awareness, the movement aims to encourage schools and local community groups to embrace decency and integrate it into both curriculum plans and service projects. Now, because of the current COVID-19 situation, the whole school curriculum thing may not be the best place to implement decency right now. Because you're not in that setting to be able to have the discussion and discourse with everyone else.
However, it's not a bad idea to look further into. So decency is all about three things, active listening, better understanding, and compassion. And I'm going to go a little bit deeper on that in my next two segments. But basically, decency offers the opportunity to be better role models for our children.
And if we can all be civil with one another, then we are setting the right example. Okay, so I mentioned that I had a couple of things I wanted to mention in regards to decency and situations that are currently bubbling around out here in these streets. So just to restate that decency is all about active listening, better understanding, and compassion. So the first part that I want to bring up is the fact that just last night, my husband had a situation where he reposted something that his father had posted on Facebook, where it was basically just saying, if you're an African-American, you need to get out and vote, period.
It didn't say vote a particular way, vote for a particular person, a particular ticket, anything. It just said that people fought for your right to vote and you need to exercise that right period. Well, he grew up in Alabama, went to a Catholic private school, and his classmates tend to chime in on his post from time to time. In true form, it just happened to happen last night, where one person comes in and they throw some Republican banter into the thread on my husband's page.
My husband is very particular about stuff like that. He doesn't go on other people's pages and pick fights with people and start stuff up. He may comment or whatever, and if somebody wants to engage in a little discourse, he's all about that life. And he's quick to ask people when they say stuff about his things, he's quick to ask them, like, hey, hit me up.
Let's chat about this. And in most cases, they don't want to talk. They don't want to have a discussion about whatever it is. He reached out to this guy that came on his thread and made the comment about Republicans and whatnot.
And in a messenger message like not in the thread, he went off to the side and was like, hey, I'm going to give you a hot minute to explain your post there. Give me a call and we can chat. And the guy was like, oh, not necessary. My husband was like, oh, but it is.
Because you don't get to come into my house and act a fool. And then I'll be like, oh, okay. No, you come into my house, you act a fool. You get put out my house.
Simple as that. And so then they go back and forth in this long conversation, back and forth. And so my husband's like, we'll see, because you were even still coming back at me with stuff in here, this to me says that a couple of people are coming back. And so I said, oh, I'm going to talk about this.
And I said, oh, I'm going to talk about this to me says that a conversation is merited. But then it got to be around time for a daughter to go to sleep and she was expecting him to come read a bedtime story. So he was like, hey, look, I'm getting ready to start a bedtime routine. We'll chat later.
Type deal. But it's situations like this where people will, they want to have their say, but they don't want to hear what you have to say, which proves to me that they have no interest in making things better. They have no interest in trying to come to a consensus to agree on some point, some place, and to be able to work from there or to try to come up with solutions for anything else. Whether it's we pick your way, we pick my way, we pick a way that neither one of us decided on.
But that to me going along with today is indecent because in no way, shape or form, you're trying to listen to the other person. You're not trying to understand their perspective. And there's no compassion there. So social media definitely needs to try to go by the ABCs of decency because if so, there would be a whole heck of a lot more value coming out of social media instead of just vileness.
Now, the other thing I want to talk about is what happened this past Tuesday? I mentioned to you in my tweet trends episode that basically Mitch McConnell had made a comment about former President Barack Obama calling him classless. And I took offense to that. It's like that.
What was it? In living color skit where there was like, don't nobody say nothing bad about Ms. Jenkins. Well, that's how I feel in regards to certain situations, especially when people are speaking, people that have a platform that are speaking knowing that they're speaking.
Knowing that people hang on their every word. And there are some people out there that think Mitch and all these other cats out here are doing great things. And so they see stuff like that and they take it and they run with it. And so I saw that there was this hashtag that was trending.
It was hashtag Moscow Mitch McConnell. That was the hashtag. And I didn't create the hashtag. It was already there.
So in replying to it, I did say how dare he call Barack Obama classless when the biggest bully out there, the king of clapbacks, number 45 himself, is the epitome of classless and Mitch manages to say in the little emoji with the eyes and no mouth. If you're scared, say you're scared. So really, it wasn't so much about me picking on him. It was the fact that so how was it that you can say this about this person and nothing about this person.
And so I'm all about being fair. If you want to call a spade, call it a spade every single time. Don't call it a spade today because it looks good to the people that your friends with and not call it that the next day because it looks bad and they might frown upon that. No, if you're going to be, if you're going to, you know, put that smoke out there and you want all the smoke back in return, then guess what?
You got to do it every time. You don't get to pick and choose that. That's not how this works. And when I tell you that my phone blew up after I hit the tweet button on that, OMG.
I got 453 re-tweets, 2236 likes. And I don't know how many replies. And in some cases, people were agreeing with me and other cases, people were being very indecent as far as to say, your mom is classless. And I'm like, you know, but guess what?
It was a Limerick Day. So do you know what I did? I hit each one of those trolls with a Limerick. Yes, I did.
I clapped back with a Limerick, basically letting them know, you don't know me. I don't know you. So good day. I have nothing left to say.
That was the basis. And some of them ended up having to get blocked because it was one of those things like, I'm telling you in my Limerick that I'm not having this discussion with you. This is not a conversation. You don't get to tell me I'm lying when this is my opinion.
If you want to discuss this with me, if we want to have a little discourse about this, then by all means, bring it and let's talk. But we're not going to sit here and you're going to call me names and whatnot because I didn't call you names. I don't even know who you are. And the fact that you felt so moved to make a comment on my tweet, then you have to deal with my decisions on whether or not I block you or I mute your tweet.
You know, I remove it so that you can move on with the rest of your life, you know, that sort of thing. But that was one of the things where I was like, how ironic is it that Thursday is National Decency Day and I have had a clear dose of it on social media where people are like, they don't know the meaning of the word. Alright guys, well that was today's episode of Tweet Trends. I hope you enjoyed it.
Do me a favor and head on over to Twitter and follow me at hevex at hevey.edu or just look for the hashtag Tweet Trends. And while you're on there, you can find that tweet that I did on Tuesday and it's hard to find the limericks that I replied back with because you'd have to then, I didn't use like the Tweet Trends hashtag or anything where you could just go to Tweet Trends and find all of the stuff that came up with that. So sorry about that. I wasn't thinking I was in an emotional state.
But speaking of an emotional state, we got a lot of stuff happening out in these streets right now. There are a number of people that have been killed or disenfranchised or there's lots of stuff happening out there. And I encourage you to not just look at Decency Day as today, but let's make everyday National Decency Day and work on that active listening, better understanding, you know, actually trying to understand where the other person is coming from and showing a little bit of compassion. Okay, work on that for me please and thank you and I'll see you back here on Tuesday.