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Does this culture of trigger words and safe spaces really exist out of the Internet? Is it an US/UK thing? I've never encountered it in my life.
by dimitar 11y ago
Does this culture of trigger words and safe spaces really exist out of the Internet? Is it an US/UK thing? I've never encountered it in my life.
- ebbv 11y agoNo, not really. This is a case of right wing white males finding some phony thing to get upset about and battle against. Exactly what they accuse "SJWs" of doing.
- Grue3 11y agoStephen Fry is right wing now? Things sure have changed.
- ebbv 11y agoOn this issue he is. People outside of TV pundits usually aren't just one place on the spectrum on all issues. On some issues someone might be progressive while being totally regressive on another.
- bpchaps 11y agoIt's almost as if opinions are complicated things! :D Stephen Fry and I share similar mental health issues (bipolar), and one of the things that comes with this awful disease is that "triggers" exist for us in unexpected and uncontrollable situations. It's often easy to say "just get over it" and "deal with it", but it's not that simple. It's entirely possible, and trust me, it happens, that a disagreement can cause a week long depressive state. That said, we deal with it because we have no other choice. If we required others to censor themselves, we'd eventually turn into little imps who never see sun light.
- Cthulhu_ 11y agoMore like extreme left. But, someone described the political left and right as a horseshoe-shape instead of linear opposites; that is, extreme-left goes #KillAllMen, extreme-right goes #BuildThatWall.
- mineshaftgap 11y agoSecuring the border is now racist? Do you lock your house when you leave? The left is dead and out of ideas, get ready for a swing to the right.
- xaduha 11y agoYou know, singling out "white male" as a group that has some kind of agenda is already "US/UK thing".
- ebbv 11y agoGive me a break. The people complaining about SJWs, safe spaces, etc. are 99% white males. I am a white male myself.
- xaduha 11y agoThat's because in other places that's not even a thing. Nothing to complain about. Therefore it is an US thing (and less so UK).
- ebbv 11y agoUgh, give it up already. If you're a white male like me you've almost certainly never been victimized for your gender or skin color. I face only positive employer, police, etc. biases. Being a minority is actually hard in this country. I have no patience for playing the victim card when you were born on third base.
- xaduha 11y agoYou don't get it. German, French men are white males too, but I don't think any of them would describe themselves as 'white males' the way you do. Russian, Bulgarian, Finnish, whatever. The idea of adding your race or skin color to your gender in day to day speech is weird pretty much anywhere apart from US. > Being a minority is actually hard in this country. What country would that be? /s De facto patriarchies exist all over the world, but that doesn't mean that they consist of 'white males'.
- atom-morgan 11y agoFar from it
- Cthulhu_ 11y agoMaybe a more familiar term would be "political correctness".