Hear Me Out...When did we let the tattletales and rats take the wheel?

Remember in grade school when one of the biggest insults you could lob at someone was calling them a tattletale? Calling someone a tattletale during recess was the equivalent of challenging another man’s honor during colonial days. Both had similar outcomes too, either the accused slinked away and was forever marked a tattletale/man of no honor, or you dueled. Simple and to the point, this prevented kids from dropping dimes on people for every minor transgression, it was better to be the dumb kid rather than the tattletale.

To be clear a tattletale is someone who narcs on another for minor wrongdoings, like sneaking an extra cookie or whatnot. The tattletale label doesn’t apply to someone who informs people of someone that’s hurting them, others or about any other dangerous behavior.

The same goes for the rat title. You’re not a rat if you’re pointing out serious and harmful stuff. What makes one a rat is if you drop a dime on a guy or girl for doing something you’re also doing or wish you could be doing.

Now that that is cleared up.

When you’re young you think rats and tattletales are something you only have to deal with while you’re a kid, but once you reach adulthood you quickly learn those people are just a part of life.

While rats and tattletales are a part of life, the shame those designations carried have slipped away and I blame Twitter and social media. In fact, it seems as if these people think they’re some sort of heroes, which is ridiculous.

Over the last month we’ve had three MLBers, Josh Hader, Sean Newcomb and Trea Turner, and one big-time director, “Guardians of the Galaxy’s” James Gunn, fall victim to these rats and tattletales.

It’s a damn shame too.

But before we go any further, I am not condoning any of the hateful and tasteless things all four men tweeted years ago. Gunn’s jokes were bad and awful jokes and as for the MLBers they said racist and homophobic things. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

That said, why are we letting these losers, yes losers, who dig around accomplished people’s Twitter’s feeds looking for something bad, to dictate anything? These tattletales and rats should be relentlessly mocked for their actions.

The fake conservatives who took time out of their day to scroll through Gunn’s feed, screenshot those tweets, turn those screenshots into a collage and then send out a series of tweets to stir up a BS controversy, should absolutely be ridiculed, in a fun way though. No death threats or unfun stuff like that.

The same goes for the social justice warriors who resurfaced the tweets of the MLBers from their high school days. I’m sure they’ve been throwing daily parades for themselves at home and might have even thrown-out their shoulder once or twice during their ritualistic self-pat on the back. But just like the fake conservatives, they need to be ridiculed, and also in a fun way.

Allowing these rats and tattletales to believe they are contributing anything positive to society is setting a dangerous precedent. It will only strengthen their numbers and increase the misery index for the rest of us, rational people. (If this were a PowerPoint presentation, this is when I’d bust out the causation chart.)

If the tattletales and rats have their way, we’ll be stuck in an endless cycle of guess which celebrity tweeted some racist, homophobic, transphobic years stuff years ago? And while we all know that our culture has quickly changed, especially within this decade, let’s pretend as if they tweeted just mere minutes ago.

There’s a lot of annoying layers to these tattletale and rat stories but at the peak of annoyingness is no one applying context. The MLBers tweeted those things when they were high school kids, I’ve said it over and over again but it bears repeating. Male + teenage years = Dumbest/lowest/least enlightened point in said male’s life. They were terrible tweets and they apologized for them. Teammates for all three guys came out in defense of them and said those tweets do not reflect the men they are today.

At the start of the decade Twitter was more fun and laid back and no one was out to get anyone. Gunn’s tweets reflected that but as he said, even before getting got by a bunch of self-righteous losers, he saw the error of his ways with those tasteless tweets and apologized. Everyone that has worked with him or for him, has had nothing but good things to say.

The quickest way to squash these tattletales and rats is for the powers to snap to and make a stand. Disney should rehire Gunn and apologize to the rational people for caving to the rats. Those fake conservatives will lose their minds for six hours but they’ll move on to straws or something else dumb like that. (For the record if you care one way or the other about straws, it’s time to unplug from the internet for at least a week. A ban or no ban on straws should be met with “Oh. Anything interesting happening today?”)

And the next franchise to have one of their player’s old terrible tweets be brought to light should drop this line, “We are aware and we’ve talked with him/her and their teammates. Along with their teammates, we strongly feel those tweets do not reflect the person they are today. So everything is good and that’s that. Any questions about the upcoming slate of games?”

After that big push from said powers, it’s up to us to keep an eye out for the rats and tattletales and you know the best way to keep them in check, goodhearted ridicule. (If goodhearted ridicule has yet to be coined, dibs!)