ebony
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Post by ebony on Nov 19, 2020 20:08:23 GMT
pile on of offended kids
what the hell happened in the half decade i was away from education?
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Nov 19, 2020 23:09:53 GMT
pile on of offended kids what the hell happened in the half decade i was away from education? You were in education?!
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 20, 2020 0:06:50 GMT
While I think people should just not be assholes for no reason and sometimes these people deserve a punch to the face or at least a bitch slap (the assholes I mean), people get triggered by the slightest fucking thing these days it seems. Now you look at someone with an annoyed face and they can't handle this.
No doubt this comes from being coddled too much by their parents.
As someone with Autism you might think being called a retard or something would "trigger" me, it doesn't. It will get a response from me in some way (general annoyance and anger and probably a verbal response), but it isn't going to ruin my day, make me go cry in the corner or make me go "tell on the person." I adapt to the world around me, not the other way around and if I can't adapt then I die and that is way it will be. That is the way it is.
Reality is not our friend.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 20, 2020 0:26:43 GMT
I am "triggered" by terms like trigger warning, toxic masculinity, microaggression and social-justice warrior.
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Post by mecano04 on Nov 20, 2020 1:40:30 GMT
While I think people should just not be assholes for no reason and sometimes these people deserve a punch to the face or at least a bitch slap (the assholes I mean), people get triggered by the slightest fucking thing these days it seems. Now you look at someone with an annoyed face and they can't handle this. No doubt this comes from being coddled too much by their parents. As someone with Autism you might think being called a retard or something would "trigger" me, it doesn't. It will get a response from me in some way (general annoyance and anger and probably a verbal response), but it isn't going to ruin my day, make me go cry in the corner or make me go "tell on the person." I adapt to the world around me, not the other way around and if I can't adapt then I die and that is way it will be. That is the way it is. Reality is not our friend.
In the same line of thought, wouldn't it also come from the attempt at making society, as a whole, a safe space?
I mean, I get what was the safe space concept at the beginning but it seems to have derailed along the way as some tried to make it about the fact of being confronted with anything that doesn't fit their views, instead what is actually offensive.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 20, 2020 1:47:40 GMT
While I think people should just not be assholes for no reason and sometimes these people deserve a punch to the face or at least a bitch slap (the assholes I mean), people get triggered by the slightest fucking thing these days it seems. Now you look at someone with an annoyed face and they can't handle this. No doubt this comes from being coddled too much by their parents. As someone with Autism you might think being called a retard or something would "trigger" me, it doesn't. It will get a response from me in some way (general annoyance and anger and probably a verbal response), but it isn't going to ruin my day, make me go cry in the corner or make me go "tell on the person." I adapt to the world around me, not the other way around and if I can't adapt then I die and that is way it will be. That is the way it is. Reality is not our friend.
In the same line of thought, wouldn't it also come from the attempt at making society, as a whole, a safe space?
I mean, I get what was the safe space concept at the beginning but it seems to have derailed along the way as some tried to make it about the fact of being confronted with anything that doesn't fit their views, instead what is actually offensive.
Yes, but my point is that they are triggered easily because of being coddled. Of course this is just speculation, but it does seem that with each generation parents become more and more coddling. I by no means meant this is the only reason for it, but it is definitely one of them. I understand the safe space thing, but this is the really real world and to expect or even want everything to be all roses and sunshine is deluded.
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Post by Stammerhead on Nov 20, 2020 1:49:19 GMT
I am "triggered" by terms like trigger warning, toxic masculinity, microaggression and social-justice warrior. The only one of those I’d question is “social-justice warrior” as I’ve only seen that term used as an insult. I have seen plenty of nerds saying that they’re interested in social justice though.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 20, 2020 1:50:57 GMT
I am "triggered" by terms like trigger warning, toxic masculinity, microaggression and social-justice warrior. The only one of those I’d question is “social-justice warrior” as I’ve only seen that term used as an insult. I have seen plenty of nerds saying that they’re interested in social justice though. I dislike it from both sides. It is just an annoying term. You are correct in that it is usually used by the opposing side and it annoys me from that side. It annoys me because it is a term that annoying conservatives love to use.
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Post by Sarge on Nov 28, 2020 2:20:53 GMT
My wife is a middle manager in a large organization, and they came up with special rules for dealing with people under 30, for example: they attempt to only communicate via written message, they attempt to minimize personal contact between GenX/Boomers and Millennials and avoid Zoomers like the plague, if something has to be communicated in person they use a go-between. They had to because entire departments kept getting shut down over this microaggression bullshit, some kid would claim the boss balled their fists while speaking or looked down at her breasts and HR has to investigate. The problem here isn't that children are acting like children, but that adults are not acting like adults. And this isn't new. People have been getting fired over unproven harassment claims going back decades, so we can't blame it on younger generations. The flip side is people who constantly rant about political correctness, cancel culture, and society being easily offended, as a rule are super sensitive and easy to trigger so it's always a case of the pot calling the kettle black. How can you tell a Zoomer it's okay if someone has a grumpy day and if Boomers can't control their own anger, or walk around trying to intentionally offend people.
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