Calling someone “gay” or cursing with friends in public places, like schools, gas stations, restaurants, or even social media has become normalized in today’s society, but there is a time and place for that and that does not include in public or on social media.

Speaking of which, when former president Obama tweeted about the new year, “It’s been a privilege of my life to serve as your president. I look forward to standing with you as a citizen. Happy New Year everybody,” it was uplifting and positive.

Trump also tweeted about the new year by saying, “Happy New Year to all, including my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!

The difference between these two tweets is that one is directed toward the user’s haters and enemies while the other is directed toward the citizens of the United States as a whole. It comes down to negatively connoting versus positively uplifting. We expect our president Donald Trump to lead us and make America great again, like he claims he will do. Yet, here he is posting negative put downs on social media when he, in fact, should be bringing in the new year in the most effective and positive way possible because he should be working  to make a good impression.

We do not understand why the president would want this reputation, bu
t the estimated 3.3 million men, women, children and families who marched in the Women’s March stood up against Trump and his insulting and ignorant ways. Being mean and disrespecting others has become the new normal.

We, the upcoming generation, can take hold of this situation of rude dialogue to each other and change it for generations to come. We do not have to wait for someone to do it for us.

Even the way people talk to each other is disgusting. Saying things like, “You’re a fag,” or “Nobody likes you,” is not the way people should be talking to each other. Bashing one another on social media and not even caring because everyone is hidden behind a screen, so it does not feel real, is becoming more common.

It is real, and the more it is normalized, the more real it gets in our sad society because in the last 12 months it became normal to not care about other people’s feelings.

“Two-thirds said they think people swear more than they did 20 years ago. An
d as for, well, the gold standard of foul words, a healthy 64 percent said they use the F-word ranging from several times a day (8 percent) to a few times a year (15 percent),” according to USATODAY.

While many slangs, words and habits become part of our nature, some of these are actually creating an unhealthy place to live in psychologically, emotionally and physically.

We should take swear words into example because that is one of the biggest problems.

“Many people all over the U.S, nearly three-quarters of Americans questioned last week 74 percent said they encounter profanity in public frequently or occasionally,” according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.

These numbers are outrageous, and this is just the F-word. The more problematic words that are used every day are the racist and sexist ones, such as the N-word and gay.

More than 50 percent of all students use the N-word to the people they associate with daily, but there are people who get offended by the nicknames they have for their friends. It is not as if they only text it and keep it quiet, they scream across the classroom or hallway, according to tolerance.org.

Hearing these words is unavoidable for the students who do not use profanity in school or anywhere in public.

Holding back from yelling the curse words will be difficult, but it will make you and your school look
better because it makes it look a lot more professional, and make you appear less ignorant.