We Are Free To Be You Me Stupid And Dead Summary

In Roger Rosenblatt essay “We are free to be you, me stupid and dead” he reflects on the ideal of how “microagression” has impacted our society and how people’s expressions of freedom of speech violates others. He starts of the essay by stating “Everyone loves free expression as long as it’s isn’t expressed” (Rosenblatt p215). Rosenblatt means that other people’s expression can violate others peoples freedom of expression. He provides us with examples such as how professional sport players violate others due to their freedom of expression which the people rejected. This goes to show that microagression has limited on what can be said and what cant due to the fact on how people viewed them on a personal level. Such as how Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

We don’t have freedom of expression because of microagression which limits on what can be said. Rosenblatt makes another point when he states “Freedom is like a legal drug. How far will it go?” (Rosenblatt p.216). This is saying that freedom of expression may be permitted but is not expressed. Freedom in this case is the legal drug such as how we are capable of expression our ideas but we don’t because of trigger warnings. Our freedom of speech is becoming so limited that sooner or later we aren’t going to have that right anymore. Rosenblatt makes the point that we shouldn’t limit our minds to only the topics we want but expand on new ideas whether or not if makes us unconformable or others. She states ‘The mind expands, the mind settles, then is shaken up, resists, and expands again. (Rosenblatt page216). In order to express our minds to the fullest we must confront the things that make us feel uncontrollable. Our minds are like a Rubik’s cube the more you play with it the harder it gets but after so many attempts you will soon solve the puzzle and the next time you have to do it will become easier to