What are your opinions on Be Kind?

[Lordwhatitis]

I feel like it was something that was started with good intentions that people now use with an alternative agenda.

I saw on Instagram this morning that a local restaurant had screenshotted a review someone left on their Facebook account. The review itself was not nice and included an uncalled for insult. The post included the restaurants reply telling her not to come back. The caption to the post was a lengthy one about being kind, which I agree with and would have thought it was the right way to respond but they included the persons name and profile picture in the post.

I think they could have gotten the same point across (even better) if this was hidden. I’m sure they did it on purpose.

I read the comments and a few have pointed this out but the rest are name calling her as a Karen and saying it was the right thing to do. I even saw the woman being tagged in the post. So AIBU in thinking people use this as a means to an end?

@mbosnz

I've noticed that people are very keen on other people being kind. They are far more relaxed on it, when it's them in the hot seat to 'be kind'.

This.

The usual people saying it are complete dickheads themselves. I've seen people posting it who bullied others into harming themselves or committing suicide. Dickhead is too soft actually for them, they are cunts and are a waste of oxygen.

Be kind is another pathetic piss poor slogan emblazoned accross clothing aimed at girls/women. Oddly enough this isn't the case for males. This alone makes my blood boil and steam come out my ears.

There's a child at my DD's school who pulled a weapon on another child

WTF? And the school's response to this was ask the other children to be kind to the aggressor? The world has gone mad indeed!!

Be Kind appears to be used by people who are far from being kind. They act like arswholes then when called out say 'be kind, you don't know what l'm going through' as though having a tough time is a free pass to be an arsehole to everyone

Yes, "Be kind!" is often an order followed up by, "because you don't know what other people are going through." True, but by that token, neither do they know what you might be enduring!

No, I don't tell my girls to be kind I tell them to be assertive and have clear boundaries. If someone trys to impose on those boundaries I tell them to tell that person to fuck off and respect their boundaries.
Don't stand for anybody else's shit, their problem is not yours. I'm quite sure Geoff Bezzo didn't get where he is today by 'being kind.'