As Greg Lukianoff argues, ‘People all over the globe are coming to expect emotional and intellectual comfort as though it were a right. This is precisely what you would expect when you train a generation to believe that they have a right not to be offended. Eventually, they stop demanding freedom of speech and start demanding freedom from speech.
An overdiagnostic culture has reframed distress and emotional pain as forms of mental illness, rather than aspects of a healthy human existence. To feel upset is not an aberration; it is a sign that we are alive.'
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.For decades white people in the U.S. were offended by having to share bathrooms and water fountains with black people and eat in the same restaurants as black people. For ages, straight people were offended by same-sex people even existing. For decades people were offended by even modest levels of bare skin in public and didn't allow even the mildest of expletives or curse words on TV, radio, or movies.
Wow... so many of you older folks sure are extremely sensitive. Young adults these days are friends with people of different races/colors, they hug each other regardless of anyone's sexual orientation, they're not offended by profanity. They don't care about which bathroom a transgender person uses.
Maybe you older folks could learn something from the younger generation and stop being so damned sensitive about shit that really doesn't matter.
Charles1971
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July 11, 2022
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@Matias You're comparing the cancellation of a lecture at a German university to decades of widespread systemic racism and outright illegalization of homosexuality in the U.S.
Yup... those two things are on par. Sure.
Any time that we encounter differences between what we think or what we purport to know and new information that is different or different opinions we will encounter emotional discomfort. Any time we see action which is not congruent with our values, we will feel discomfort. Any time we are abused physically or emotionally we will feel discomfort. It is impossible to go through life without experience all of those. Indeed, it is often the encountering of discomfort which causes us to grow physically, emotionally and intellectually.
As Norman Mailer said over 60 years ago, we all too often cheat the heart out o life by trying to experience "the hat of orgy without suffering its pain."
wordywalt
Level 9
July 11, 2022
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The real snowflakes are the one's demanding people listen to them even when we've heard it all before and it's all just shit. Like religion, or worse general conservative policies that have failed every single time they were ever tried as if we haven't tried them enough or aren't familiar with their failed viability already.
Willow_Wisp
Level 8
July 11, 2022
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Perhaps a balance needs to be struck between safe spaces and trigger free zones on the one hand and the bigoted hate mongering rehashing on the other?
p-nullifidian
Level 8
July 11, 2022
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@Matias Indeed! I hate religion, unabashedly. Is that going to be classified as hate speech?
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