OFCI Report Editorial: I Apologize

It seems that we have become very sensitive as a nation latley. Apologizing for every single little incident that comes along because we feel we have hurt someone's feelings.  Sure we have to be careful sometimes about things we say, publish, and broadcast, but in a world filled with satire and parody, you would think that we would be a little less tense and a little more humored. Just recently Ford Motor Company issued an apology for an internet ad depicting the Kardashian sisters bound and gagged in the back of one of their new vehicles driven by Paris Hilton giving a wink. The ad was created to show how roomy Ford's new Figo was, and it used the likeness of the reality tv stars in cartoon form to do so. But because of the sensitivity of today's society it allowed for a public outcry for ford to apologize saying the ad was inappropriate. Also in the wake of public outcry the TV Reality Show Amazing Race was called upon by Vietnam Vets and supportors because on a recent episode it featured a downed american aircraft in Hanoi, which was an American Vietnam Memorial, and that too was deemed inappropriate. In a world where we can critisize a President in public and on television, and disagree with our government officials, it shocks me that people would get dramatic over a depiction in a car ad featuring four no talent hacks, and get mad over a tv show's use of location. But yet no one gets upset and ask for apologies when they see the homeless suffering, jobs are loss, and schools closing down. I don't see folks rushing to apologize for Slavery, the Civil Rights and Jim Crow era, or for the Holocaust, but yet you scream to the top of the hills because Kim Kardashian is drawn bound and gagged in the back of a car. I don't know about you, but I think our priorities in this world are pretty messed up. Now I am not saying what was done by Ford and the Amazing Race was right or wrong, but what I am saying is that in some situations we just need to lighten up....Again, we live in a world filled with satire and parody, and to get your britches in a bunch seems pretty crazy to me. As one person put it in the comment section in one of the articles..."What ever happened to Sense of Humor?