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The window of what's considered offensive has widened to the point that nearly everything is offensive, up to and including staying silent on an issue. There ar

• delecti 8y ago
  Or possibly, a lot of people have always been kinda shit to each other, and it's only recently that people have felt confident in speaking out about it.
• DonaldPShimoda 8y ago
  > There are real people in the real world that will get offended if you say "hey guys" after all. I don't want to say that I don't believe these people exist (because I'm sure they do), but rather I don't think their presence is something you need to be overly concerned with because I think there are so shockingly few of them that it really isn't overly consequential. I think their existence is overhyped by people on the internet, because I've never met anyone in my life who has brought this up in the real world. Just handle things like that on a case-by-case basis. If all the people you interact with don't care... then you probably don't need to worry about it. But if there's someone who says "Hey, I don't like it when you say that", then perhaps take their opinion under consideration and determine what you want to do about it. The notion that you need to constantly be on guard about everything you say is completely absurd, unless you're a raging asshole whose comments regularly spark resentment in your conversational counterparts.