Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Comment sections are to societies as roses are to vineyards. Insists (me!) Sandra, tvgp

Said it before. Inspired to say it again when I watched the interview on  CBS Sunday Morning with General Mills executive regarding the cheerios commercial and all the controversy..

Upshot:  commercial features an interracial family.  -apparently a comment section on an accompanying website yielded so many hateful, negative comments that they removed the comment section all together.  -they did not stop airing the commercial.

That seems all write and good to me..   We certainly don't need a public platform for spreading hate

Or..

Do we?

I remind here what I learned while pouring wine and touring the vineyards:

At the end of each row of grapevines there are roses. The roses are not there for aesthetic purposes. The roses are there to PROTECT the grapevines..

How this happens.. Is that  IF a certain bug comes around that THREATENS the grapevines.. The roses will respond to the threat more quickly than the grapevines.. So if the roses get attacked by the bug.. This serves as a WARNING that if they don't act quick..

The grapes will be attacked also.

Without the roses... They wouldn't know about the threat in time to do anything about it.

I see comment sections as societies roses...  How can we know about all the hate bugs threatening our neighborhoods, schools, working, church, sport, recreation and other  environments without them?

At least now we know...  Perhaps what we've learned is that there is a larger problem than we realized..

And we should use this knowledge the same way winemakers use their roses..

To act quickly! Before it spreads even further...

I'm conflicted:  I'm glad they removed the comment section..

But what I know..and what you know..

Is that removing the comment section does not = removing the hate...

We need to remove the hate; the ignorance..

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