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Mythos
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10 Sep 2018, 1:35 pm

Olivia_H wrote:
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I don't know, we have to be more specific. Some instances are probably entirely justified.


Obviously there are cases where being offended is justified, however 90% of the 'cases' I've witnessed of people becoming offended are actually ridiculous.

There seems to be more "ism's" and "ist's" than any other word in the English language now. It's gotten to a point where people are becoming offended by how people choose to style their hair (the dreadlock debate).

It baffles me as being perpetually offended should be exhausting, yet so many people seem to live for it and draw energy from being some kind of victim or "oppressed group".
There are a lot of people who are selective about this.

For example, right now there's a sea of videos about people being offended about a joke in Doom 2. I watched a counter to this and it turns out this was about three tweets which said that they thought that maybe it was a bit forced. Of course, in the current political climate, this became "SJW outrage over DOOM 2 joke" or some relative garbage. The amount of videos over this was obscene, and people ironically missing the point entirely that they themselves seemed to be offended by the idea that anybody could dare criticise something for such a reason.

I should point out also that the tweets barely suggested even slight annoyance.

My point being that outrage these days is massively overblown. A lot of missing context makes some believe that there's a lot more emotion involved than there actually is.



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10 Sep 2018, 2:07 pm

AspE wrote:
I don't know, we have to be more specific. Some instances are probably entirely justified.

Some instances are justified. Therein lies the harm the trend is causing. When people complain about actally offensive things they are often ignored or mocked as another whiny, fragile Social Justice Warrior.


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10 Sep 2018, 2:56 pm

Mythos wrote:
Olivia_H wrote:
AspE wrote:
I don't know, we have to be more specific. Some instances are probably entirely justified.


Obviously there are cases where being offended is justified, however 90% of the 'cases' I've witnessed of people becoming offended are actually ridiculous.

There seems to be more "ism's" and "ist's" than any other word in the English language now. It's gotten to a point where people are becoming offended by how people choose to style their hair (the dreadlock debate).

It baffles me as being perpetually offended should be exhausting, yet so many people seem to live for it and draw energy from being some kind of victim or "oppressed group".
There are a lot of people who are selective about this.

For example, right now there's a sea of videos about people being offended about a joke in Doom 2. I watched a counter to this and it turns out this was about three tweets which said that they thought that maybe it was a bit forced. Of course, in the current political climate, this became "SJW outrage over DOOM 2 joke" or some relative garbage. The amount of videos over this was obscene, and people ironically missing the point entirely that they themselves seemed to be offended by the idea that anybody could dare criticise something for such a reason.

I should point out also that the tweets barely suggested even slight annoyance.

My point being that outrage these days is massively overblown. A lot of missing context makes some believe that there's a lot more emotion involved than there actually is.


I've had a lot of personal experiences with certain "types" of people that just LOVE to become offended and then proceed to "educate" the "offender" with their meaningless bullsh*t. I agree that things can definitely spiral on social media and become something way bigger than they actually are.



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10 Sep 2018, 3:47 pm

Most of the time it's for attention. Everything that's even mildly a point of contention has to be a huge deal. It's most annoying when the lies start in order to keep everyone from crying. "Everyone is beautiful", not they're not. If everyone is beautiful, then no one is beautiful. Beauty is subjective, a person who is beautiful to someone might not be to others. By saying it they also place too much emphasis on beauty when it's not important in the slightest. What's wrong with 'no, you're not beautiful, but that's OK'? At least it's honest. The 'big is beautiful' sentiment is also really annoying and could be dangerous, it's giving people a pass on obesity (but not for men, apparently, big men are poster boys for heart disease, not beauty. Litterally). So 'big is beautiful' because no one wants to cause offense, but at the same time, it's open season on slim girls. The makers of Star Wars The Force Awakens were accused of setting impossible body standards by putting Daisy Ridley on screen, despite Daisy being a real person who achieved her size fairly easily. I don't see the logic, it all seems very unequal, some are allowed to be offended as much as possible, others aren't even allowed to have a mouse fart in their direction.

I get pretty exasperated just thinking about it all. Mainly because it seems to be mob mentality beyond our control.



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10 Sep 2018, 3:48 pm

Olivia_H wrote:
Mythos wrote:
Olivia_H wrote:
AspE wrote:
I don't know, we have to be more specific. Some instances are probably entirely justified.


Obviously there are cases where being offended is justified, however 90% of the 'cases' I've witnessed of people becoming offended are actually ridiculous.

There seems to be more "ism's" and "ist's" than any other word in the English language now. It's gotten to a point where people are becoming offended by how people choose to style their hair (the dreadlock debate).

It baffles me as being perpetually offended should be exhausting, yet so many people seem to live for it and draw energy from being some kind of victim or "oppressed group".
There are a lot of people who are selective about this.

For example, right now there's a sea of videos about people being offended about a joke in Doom 2. I watched a counter to this and it turns out this was about three tweets which said that they thought that maybe it was a bit forced. Of course, in the current political climate, this became "SJW outrage over DOOM 2 joke" or some relative garbage. The amount of videos over this was obscene, and people ironically missing the point entirely that they themselves seemed to be offended by the idea that anybody could dare criticise something for such a reason.

I should point out also that the tweets barely suggested even slight annoyance.

My point being that outrage these days is massively overblown. A lot of missing context makes some believe that there's a lot more emotion involved than there actually is.


I've had a lot of personal experiences with certain "types" of people that just LOVE to become offended and then proceed to "educate" the "offender" with their meaningless bullsh*t. I agree that things can definitely spiral on social media and become something way bigger than they actually are.


I also posit that those that are continuously offended are also people who are more easily manipulated.