After watching the "Diversity Day" episode of The Office do you think a lesson can be learned from Michael Scott? Do you believe that by being offensive to all people you are in fact offensive to no one? Thoughts...
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After watching the "Diversity Day" episode of The Office, I do believe that a lesson can be learned from Michael Scott. The diversity day he was trying to create showed great irony and ignorance on Michael's part because in his attempt to support equal treatment, he was discriminating everybody more than normal. Rather than creating a calm atmosphere and not focusing on stereotypes or making others uncomfortable, he did just that. In one particular case he made fun of an Indian employee by speaking in a mocking accent and suggesting that all Indian people work at Seven Eleven. Michael was so ignorant in that he did not even realize he hurt the woman's feelings. I do not think that by being offensive to all people you are in fact offensive to no one. Simply put, you are just offensive to everyone. You may be treating everyone equally if you are offensive to all, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that your equal treatment is not offensive, but tolerant. That is the whole point of a diversity day. It is meant to show acceptance of everyone, not to offend everyone. In addition, Michael Scott showed great bias by just assuming that an employee would be good at basketball due to them being black and that another employee would not be good due to them being a woman. Using such stereotypes is definitely not the way to get ahead in life. Judging others based on stereotypes can result in negative outcomes in life as shown by the way the basketball game in the episode turned out. If Michael had been less biased and actually spent time getting to know his employees, perhaps he would have been able to assemble a far more superior team.
I believe that a lesson can be learned after watching the "Diversity Day" episode of The Office. I believe the lesson that can be learned is that even though you don't think you're being offensive, you might be or in Michael's case, definitely are. He made discriminatory jokes about employees' race and other qualities that made them unique. Michael thought that by being offensive to everyone, he wasn't being offensive because he wasn't focusing on one person. This brings me to say that I don't believe that by being offensive to everyone, you aren't being offensive at all. The way something is said and to whom it's said to offends certain people. If something discriminatory was to be said to one person, and the same thing was said to another person but in a different tone of voice, the first person might be more offended by it. Individual people also get offended by the way people treat others, not just the way people treat that individual person.
After watching the Office, I believe that many lessons can be learned from Michael Scott. I think that even if you do think that you are being offensive, it may be offensive to others.Michael continously made racist and/or sterotypical comments towards his employees. He might not of thought that he was being offensive, but it was bothering the employees.Even though you may think that a comment might not harm someone, it could possibly be very offensive to another person.
When you are being offensive to all people you are in fact offensive to no one I do believe is a true statement. Regardless of your actions and the people you are around, when you are choosing to be offensive towards someone and then continue to do this to many people, you get very comfortable the matter and it becomes second nature to you, meaning when you are offensive to all people you are not having an effect on anyone but yourself. In the episode of the office, Michaels character was very ignorant, insensitive, and he wasn’t aware of what he was saying and how it was really hurting those who he was insulting. The worst part was that in reality people are actually like this is the real world, and it becomes so second nature to them, it doesn't occur to them that by them doing this to many people over and over again, they are in fact offensive to no one, and that’s just the way it goes.
After watching the episode, "Diversity Day" of The Office I have come to a conclusion that being offensive to everyone is still being offensive. I think this because maybe if everyone was offensive to everyone else then it could be considered as not offensive but because it was just Michael being offensive to people it was in fact offensive. Throughout the episode Michael called people out and expressed stereotypes againt them. The people who he called out were totally oblivious to the fact that Michael was doing it to everyone, they just thought they were being victimized and segregated against. If everyone had recieved the memo to be offensive to all then no one would feel victimized because they would be calling other people out by thier differences just like how Michael was doing to them.
A lesson can be learned after watching "Diversity Day" episode of the Office. Michael Scott believed by being offensive to everyone meant you were not being offensive at all. I do not agree with him, although he was trying to treat everyone equally he was still offending others. For example, many of his co-workers were not amused while he was offending the Indian women by making fun of her accent and culture. By doing this Michael Scott was not only making fun of just her but anyone else who is Indian. Being offensive to everyone does not mean you are offensive to no one.
Stephanie Kiback
After watching the “Diversity Day” episode of The Office I believe that there was a lesson to be learned from Michael Scott. However, it seemed that as the episode went on you could take a lot of lessons away of what “not to do”, rather than what you should do in a professional environment. For example, when Michael decided to do his own version of diversity day, he had everyone put a sticky note on their forehead and told them to act out the “typical actions” of the ethnic group assigned. This is where a lot of the idea of stereotyping came into play. The coworkers tried to go about an easier way of trying to get the ethnic group across to their partner, but when Michael continued to circle the group and “help” them act it out, he made it much worse. He made many stereotypical statements toward various group such as Caucasians, Indians, Blacks, etc. The lesson to be learned here was do not judge a book by its cover. Everyone looks different because we are all different people; that doesn’t make us superior to one person or another. In all Michael seemed to be very offensive to many people. When looking into the question of whether I believe that by being offensive to all people makes you offensive to no one, I do not believe this is true. I think that if you are offensive to all people, it just defines you as racist to all. Being offensive to no one would define you as being an “all-weather liberal”, which sadly only makes up a very small part of the American population.
Stephanie Kiback
I do think a lesson can be learned from Michael Scott, even if you do not agree with his opinions on racism. His idea that by being offensive to everyone, you are in fact offensive to no one, is purposefully written to sound ridiculous. However, this brings up a good point. Many people in our country today believe that "equal treatment" is the same as "fair and equal treatment". Just because you are treating everyone the same, does not mean that you are treating everyone fairly. It is very possible to discriminate against two different minority groups, which would be considered equal, but not fair. In this episode, Michael Scott represents America's ignorance about "fair and equal treatment" towards minority groups. His ethnocentric character discriminates against every race and ethnicity but his own, making stereotypical jokes about everyone in the office. He even goes so far as to play a game simply to poke fun at other races. While this was comically written into the show to raise awareness, modern day Americans can definitely learn a very valuable lesson from it, and that is that no one race or ethnicity is any better than another, and no one is above anyone else.
After watching the "Diversity Day" episode of The Office, I do consider that a lesson can be learned from Michael Scott. The way that Michael believed that by being offensive to everyone, he wasn't being offensive at all because he was not concentrating on one person, but, he is doing it to all people. I don’t think that by being offensive to all people you are in fact offensive to no one. I think you are just offensive to every person. While in the episode, he was offending the Indian women by making fun of the way she speaks. Not only Michael was hurting her, but, it can be said to other Indian people, either accent or background. Michael also assumes that worker would be pro at basketball because of the skin color black. He also made everyone put on a sticky note on their forehead to act out the typical actions of the ethnic group given. When the workers aren’t getting the ethnic group correctly, Michael made many stereotypical statements to various group. He wouldn’t think that he was being offensive, but it was disturbing the workers.
After watching "Diversity day" i do believe that something can be learned from micheal scott. Even though he thought that he was being equal by stereotyping everyone,it had still offended people. But what can be learned is that ignorence can be the downfall of some people. In micheal scotts case he was being ignorent to the fact that offending everyone still hurt even though it was towards everyone. Which made him more disliked by his co- workers. some say that ignorence is bliss but when it comes to micheal scotts case ignorence can be your downfall because being ignorent to the fact that offending everyone is like not offending anyone at all is stupid and can get you into trouble.
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After watching the Office, I believe that many lessons can be learned from Michael Scott. I think that even if you do think that you are being offensive, it may be offensive to others.Michael continously made racist and/or sterotypical comments towards his employees. He might not of thought that he was being offensive, but it was bothering the employees.Even though you may think that a comment might not harm someone, it could possibly be very offensive to another person.
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