I'll probably earn an (at least) temporary ban for this...
Hope the mods will entertain at least temporarily a "reverse safe-space".
So this thread is MY thread. If you are one of the self righteous and perpetually offended snowflake types, please start your own safe space thread. You are welcome here but your histrionics are not (mine are - tough titties). Again, MY thread. Start your own if you like, I'll either ignore said thread or at least play nicely by the local rules.
So it seems I used a "trigger word" on another thread. I was asked (politely) to edit said trigger word out. I decided to comply and will be more careful about such behavior in the future. Except on this thread. This is for a candid discussion of the obnoxious component of political correctness.
Back in nursery school, I learned a little rhyme. It started "sticks and stones". I'd bet dollars to donuts that everyone here from an English speaking country learned the same rhyme. Somehow, the lesson of that rhyme (which is intuitive to 4 year olds) is lost on the majority of American teens and even adults. Seriously?!? WORDS hurt your feelings? Have you no self-esteem? Is your "locus of control" so far external to you that other people are fully in control of your attitude? That my friends, is exactly counter to the Stoic element of Mustachianism. Take up a mindfulness meditation already.
So, I get it. It costs me very little to comply with your request. And to refuse to do so shows a lack of graciousness. (And except for this thread, I generally comply with such requests as noted above). But what about my free speech? You get to be angry (perpetually offended even) but I have to be completely cool and passive while you lose your shit over my behavior? When do I get to lose my shit over you being an enormously excessively sensitive snowflake PUSSY?!? *FACEPUNCH* Life is hard. Face facts, you are a big wimp and need to grow up. Else, you will never be effectively an adult. And, oh yeah, your behavior is passive-aggressive. Somebody needs to call you people out on your bullshit already.
Here's the elephant in the room. The truth is the real victim of political correctness. It is now no longer socially permissible to call a spade a spade. In World War II, 19 year olds rushed headlong into near certain death charging the beaches of Normandy. They fought Nazis. They did not need a "safe-space" to protect them from coarse language. They turned out OK without such "protections". Those "protections" are in quotes for a reason: they are doing more harm than good. We are coddling a generation. They need to be given more latitude to fail and to get their little snowflake asses kicked by life so they can develop some resilience.
Disagree? Start your own thread.
Agree? Rant away in this REVERSE safe-space.
OK, I'm done for now.
-Lizard King-