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Why has all the hyper-sensitivity only come to the forefront over the past few years then?
by whatok 11y ago
Why has all the hyper-sensitivity only come to the forefront over the past few years then?
- SolaceQuantum 11y agoWhy do you think it's only been the last few years? It's always existed. The internet allows people to now convene to discuss these issues and establish acceptable behaviors.
- whatok 11y agoI don't know how much actual discussion (vs preaching to the choir) occurs on the internet when anyone with a remotely differing view is immediately told that they are wrong for not agreeing 100% and shortly after has a Twitter mob doxing them.
- SolaceQuantum 11y agoIt seems there isn't a twitter mob doxing you right now for having this view.
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- saturdaysaint 11y agoLike other rises in sensitivity, technology. Ever-present smartphone cameras (and, more recently, police cameras) have made violent attacks on black men real and visceral. And social media has made reports of violence (even without video)that would have been buried in papers much easier to find - such as Charles Blow's son getting (mistakenly) apprehended at gunpoint on Yale's campus by campus police. Much like color news broadcasts made the carnage in Vietnam less palatable than past wars, and the broadcasts of the violence against Selma protesters created a swell of support for the civil rights movement, technology expands our circle of those we perceive as connected to us.
- whatok 11y agoAgreed on technology. There does seem to be a disproportionate rise in sensitivity wrt what you mentioned (100% and incidents emphasized in the original post.
- VLM 11y agoIts a virulent meme parasite that has as a necessary characteristic of its existence, internet based social media. Its a societal sickness or illness. Much like you can't have the historical black plague without the specific species of flea that live on a specific species of urban rat, you can't have SJWs without social media.
- noonespecial 11y ago"Nowadays, it is true, we are made so sensitive by the raving crowd of flatterers that we cry out that we are stung as soon as we meet with disapproval. When we cannot ward off the truth with any other pretext, we flee from it by ascribing it to a fierce temper, impatience, and immodesty." - Martin Luther, 1520! Perhaps not so new, Twitter was just slower in the 1500's.
- ebola1717 11y agoThe generally rightward shift in the country post-Nixon, plus generational differences more than anything else. Most of these complaints have been bubbling under the surface for decades - what you call hyper-sensitivity, they'd call shining a light on these issues that are often ignored or (self-)repressed.
- dragonwriter 11y agoBecause the conservatives whose formative years were during the heyday of right-wing complaints about "political correctness" in the 1980s are now at the age where they are the main body of the experienced leadership of the faction, and they lack the creativity to come up with different complaints than the ones they grew up marinating in. To the extent that hypersensitivity is real, its always been there. Its "come to the forefront" because a certain political faction has chosen to cherry-pick, exaggerate, and sometimes outright fabricate examples of it that occur opposing them to characterize all opposition to their ideas, resurrecting a pattern (and label) that the same faction engaged used for the same purpose in the past.