I recently had a high school buddy post a photo of Caitlin Jenner and a soldier and said, "this is what courage really looks like" under the soldier. His post had like 5 "likes" too. I was disillusioned. Then, I made the comment under his post: Courage comes in many forms. To acknowledge one form doesn't diminish the others. -This comment received twice as many "likes." -My experience is that the good, sane and thoughtful people out-number the morons.I remember looking at Facebook comments about Caitlin Jenner and just feeling truly, truly sickened by people.
That was a meme started by a director. He did Friday Night Lights? Blue Something or Other? His name is Peter Berg. Caitlyn Jenner won the Arthur Ashe Award for courage at the ESPYS, ESPN's attempt at an award show for a thing with awards built into it (sports), and there's no rule that says the winner has to be an athlete. So this guy decides to pander to the kind of person who'd object to her winning a courage award by posting a picture of a soldier who got his legs blown off doing his job in some war that shouldn't have happened. It's like a perfect storm of colliding cultures.
You just have to coax the good out of them sometimes. :P