- Yes, yes, yes. I was raised with the old "sticks and stones" saying. People get offended for people who they think should be offended. Jeremy Renner getting cancelled for a dad-joke. He was answering questions at a convention of some sort and someone in the audience asked him a dumb question. I'm paraphrasing, but it was something like: "In the comics Hawkeye is hearing disabled. Do you think you did a good enough job portraying this in the movies and how important do you think it is for disabled people to have a super-hero to look up to?"
Jeremy's response was a joke and he went: "Huh?" While leaning in, cuping his ear towards the asker. After he laughed he answered the question seriously. People started sharing the vid and calling him names. Many even called him a facist and Nazi (I'm not exaggerating) for doing what he did. People made a HUGE deal out of it. This is just an example of how people are now. Ask someone who is disabled and they'll likely not care about harmless jokes. I don't wan't to go into details, but I DO have a disability and I get more mad at people trying to virtue signal for me than people who make jokes about it. If you can't make light about bad shit, then you'll die a bitter, sour, rude, asshole.1|30|0Is this still revelant?I haven't heard about this incident you recounted, but I agree with you.
I just want to point out that I think we should be more angry at corporations, government, etc. for firing people over all these incidences. I get that there's money and reputations at stake, but I see them as cowards, the corporations, for too often defaulting to caving in nowadays. Have a f'ing backbone and say something like, "You know, he was making a joke, we understand some of you took offence, but we believe in..." I hate cancel culture.@AmandaYVR I agree. I used to be a Boy Scout before they turned in to Scouting BSA.
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- No. People have always been like that. The change we see now is that the law pacifies them.
People have always gotten offended, it just wasn't a crime in the past.
At least in America. In private in most places it was OK too. There were moments in history were you couldn't offend people of certain institutions like churches or the government.0|10|0Is this still revelant?
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- I think it might be more of what it is honestly. Sometimes there are problems or things that seem little/small, but some of those can be pretty serious and hurt the most. Not all of the time though. But people who are more prone to getting really stressed, anxious, etc. might get upset about the small things since they're not feeling good. A person who isn't won't get upset since they're in a good mood. I'm sure some people wouldn't get so upset if they just had more time to their life instead of working all of the time.0|10|0Is this still revelant?
- Not really. People who often assume that are usually people who lack an understanding of why a person feels and does what they do. Sensitive people are sensitive people. But it really all depends on what is considered small for them to be hurt about. At the end of the day, you're not always going to please everyone.1|10|0Is this still revelant?
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64- I believe that there are more overly sensitive types in society now, than there were 20 years ago. Even if you look at one of things over the last 20 years, you will notice there's more said today than then.
I'm not really wanting to bring up topics, but a generalized example is history. I was taught in school that history is to be learned from, and be remembered. Not to be whined and cried about till you tear everything up and demand it not be spoken of. No one human is perfect, and there's no one human that ever will be. So why are we busy whining and crying, rather than learning and teaching to be better, to be the teacher, to help those that should know what was right to do...
It's a consistant flaw that eventually will tear us down and apart, rather than help us come together as a whole.0|31|0 - No, people are just coming out now and saying it's wrong to behave in a certain way towards others. I agree there are a few who are a bit too deiicate but I think for the majority there just saying we shouldn't have to tolerate crap.1|10|0
- Yeah I think so. It also seems like some people are looking for stuff to get upset over... even if they have to fabricate it.0|10|0
- It's effectively a competition to see who can be the most offended.0|10|0
- Anonymous1 moYes, but that's kind of the thing. It's a LOT of little things. Straw that broke the camel's back and whatnot. Or death by a thousand cuts. Either one.0|10|0
- Absolutely, people are going soft. When I was a kid I'd get my ass spanked as a kid. People are soft nowadays which is why kids become spoiled brats.0|10|0
- Anonymous1 moYup
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Butthurt people's population is expanding exponentially0|10|0 - Ofc this has been a problem.0|10|0
- They always were but yeah it's getting worse 4sho0|10|0
- First world problem and definitely yes0|10|0
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