People aren't really as easily offended as it seems on the internet.

who knows? honestly my theory for the people that get mad at harmless things is that their lives are boring and they need something to be mad about and invest emotion into.

and i think there's a difference between being mad for a good reason and throwing a huge fit because someone made a joke you don't like, or because some disney umbrella short is "heteronormative" (i am not making this up, i legitimately saw a decent number of people get mad at that), or because beyonce made a video that you disagree with.

person: why are people so easily offended?
people on the internet: *proceed to get extremely offended and write passive aggressive comments about them on a forum*

There's a very fine line nowadays that not many people are sure how to navigate. On the one hand, some people who complain that everyone is "way too sensitive" are usually pretty narcissistic and have zero self-awareness.

On the other, there are also some people who take every minuscule thing way too seriously as well. It seems like nobody really knows where to draw the line imo.

For me personally, it's all about context and intention, but hey, not everybody understands those things

"People are easily offended these days" is just something people say when they can't comprehend that society progresses. The more appropriate question is "why haven't some people moved forward with society?"

It's not that people are more offended..there is more space for people to voice their opinions and thoughts. We have an opem forum today.

The same people who asks these questions get offended when they switch a white superhero with a black super hero or when kids refuse to say the pledge. Really, everyone gets offended no matter what.

Great answer.

I mean...

this all the time

People like to do it to seem more moral. It's pathetic and annoying.

Daily stress and feeling of entitlement.

This is a lie. It's definitely Americans. Overseas people are not this easily butt hurt.

It's just political evolution.

15 years ago the Europeans got sick of the overwhelming political correctness and resulted into voting the populists (saying things as it is, unfiltered) to power. Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands, Jörg Haider in Austria, Jean-Marie Le Pen in France,... The traditional parties were alarmed by this and had to adopt that kind of speech too.

Trump is just following the footsteps of those early 00s politicians and a lot of Americans agree with "PC has to be abolised".

Honestly it is simply...


People have for years been talked down to and made fun of by people in position of power. Now people are free to voice their opinions. Is it a bit extras sometimes, yes, but you are free to ignore them of you want to :micheal:

Also go back like 50-70 and say some about interracial dating, communism, or gays and so how easliy offended they were

I think it's because those people aren't emotionally mature (yet).

Some people have mastered the art of not caring about what anybody says about them. Donald Trump for example. I don't agree with everything he says but he gets ridiculed by the general public and people all over the world every day and he just doesn't care. Then on the complete other end of the spectrum you have someone who has a panic attack because of a 'micro aggression'.

Who's the one who might become President? Who's the one who will never go anywhere in life because they'll keep having panic attacks from innocent comments made by others?

Becoming easily offended is something that we all had to endure as children. When we were children we were a lot more sensitive and insecure about ourselves. But once you've finished puberty and enter adulthood you should be able to not care if someone makes fun of you for something.

This is something you LEARN. The easily offended people think they are that way and there is nothing they can ever do about it, but it's not true. They can LEARN to not become offended. It will take years, but they will be a lot happier when they master it, and there will be a lot more they can accomplish in the world when nothing can tear them down.

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