What I would like from the Progressives/SJW. Trggr Wrnng.

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First, I'm no bully although many people who I assume share your mindset will have "bully" as their go to word. After all, if you call me a bully, and bullying is in the eye of the victim because a bully never admits it, then no matter what I say you're right and I'm a bully, no? But your feelings have nothing to do with facts and the facts are I'm not bullying anyone. I'm discussing my feelings about this movement on a forum. I'm not posting on your FB timeline insulting you. Stating my feelings about a movement and my take on the folks involved, in general, isn't bullying.

Just because I say its whining doesn't mean someone's feelings are invalid. There are no invalid feelings, including mine. We feel what we feel. It's there. It's real. It's in our heads and we may choose to talk about it, but its valid. It may not be based on facts but its real. Feelings can be incorrect but they are still valid. If I said I felt you were targeting me because I'm high functioning and I encourage others to try to improve their skills, that would be valid. It would be what was in my head (in this example, it's not really there. I pulled it out of my ass) but it might or might not be correct. If it's incorrect it's still a real and valid feeling. Telling someone that x isn't meant as offensive isn't invalidating their feelings. Telling someone that they are annoying when they keep on about how they may feel that your cowboy boots are cultural appropriation isn't telling them that their feelings are invalid. It's telling them they are wrong about intent, or annoying, or even silly and its not the same as valid.

I don't understand everyone's feelings but I don't think most of them are silly and overblown. I think that some of this crap is though. And most people I know do too. Why is it OK for you to say that "Hi, nice to meet you. Are you new here? Yeah, where are you from" is racist but its bullying for me to say I think it's whining? You can label my words but I can't label yours? What makes you so special then? (Collective you, not you you. Calm down)

To be honest it's not normal to be so overly sensitive and paranoid that you find fault with multiple small things that aren't even noticable nor intended in the slightest way to be offensive and you get upset over such tiny things. By normal I dont mean average. I mean majority. I'm not saying you can't feel that way, you can. But I'm saying that it's probably a lot easier on you to get some help for the problem so you aren't always worried about being offended or being offended or getting over being offended, because no matter what somebody will offend you without meaning to and some will just to watch you get upset. If you say why should I change, it's because you are feeling a lot of distress. Why wouldn't you want to get that treated? That's what people used to do and they felt better after.

I don't call it whining because I'm some bully. I call it that because it is. It's complaining annoyingly about a trivial things that doesn't upset many people and wouldn't upset many people. It's acting like your feelings are so important that just refraining from insulting people and doing any of the thousand things everybody knows are rude or offensive isn't enough, you want people to learn special rules to deal with you. And that's not only annoying and whining, it's entitled too.

The difference between what I'm doing and they are doing is I'm annoyed by this but it doesn't effect my emotions. The most I would feel is embarrassed that people might think we are all that way over here. I don't expect you to stop because I don't like it,and I have no desire to put social pressure on you to. I do desire to speak up about what bothers me if all you guys are going to do is walk around talking about what upsets you andigjt upset everybody else, constantly. It's whiney. It's not the same as whatever you did in school when a bully hurt you. This is ridiculous. Jazz hands. Really. Somebody defend that s**t with a straight face.

Why is developing a thicker skin so wrong? What's so terrible about it? Why not work on that? You will be a lot happier not being triggered daily.

Is pretending to be Kanye West considered non-PC? It is a fact that white people ridiculed and stereotyped blacks for decades using blackface. It's not unreasonable to be concerned about that.

I just don't understand why people whine about SJW so much. If you don't like them just ignore them, it is in your power.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140226142708/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism
"Cultural Bolshevism, or in German Kulturbolschewismus,[1] was a term widely used during the Third Reich by critics who denounced modernism in the arts, particularly when seeking to discredit more nihilistic forms of expression. As many modernists embraced Marxism while rejecting traditional values, Cultural Bolshevism and the similarly pejorative term "Cultural Marxism" also took on political overtones. "
so why are you rabbiting nazi propoganda Jacoby?

You're a BS artist. This notion that we have to choose between self-righteous PC culture and righwing identity politics is a false dichotomy.

Politics is not about morality, it's about power. Political correctness is nothing more than a modern incarnation of the holier than thou complex. PC people try to assert moral superiority and ideological purity as a means of jockeying for status.If you stop taking American culture and politics and face value and take a closer look at what people actually *do*, you might learn something and be taken seriously for once!