It’s been quite obvious that President Obama speaking to students has drawn controversy. As I stated in an earlier blog post, I think the President addressing students is a good thing. However, there are plenty out there that would disagree with that assessment.
In order to spur on some debate and discussion, I threw out a little sarcastic comment on my Facebook page yesterday basically in support of Obama’s speech. I didn’t expect it to generate 44 follow up comments within 4 hours.
The comments were fairly well split between being for or against Obama and his speech, but the longer the comments went on, the less intelligent they seemed to become. I’m all for healthy discussion, debate, and disagreement, but it quickly went away from that and became borderline childish.
It quickly became a “my dad can beat up your dad” competition filled with lots of insults, jabs, and unintelligent comments. Next time you’re in a debate like that, keep in mind a really solid principle from Disney’s Bambi: “If you don’t have anything nice (or intelligent) to say (or post), don’t say anything at all.”
Or in the words of Mark Twain, “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
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