Do you not see that by finding your co-worker's discomfort "hilarious" and labeling them "privileged" that you are doing your part to perpetuate and create outrage?

Their discomfort comes from people telling them to stop checking sex jokes into the code base, posting comments about women's panties, making dick jokes, etc.

Stopping inappropriate behavior is not outrage.

Honestly I have a hard time believing that a company that would have sensitivity training would allow any of that behavior to continue beyond a single offense.

That being said, my point is that you are not helping anything regardless of the validity of the original complaints. You display flippant indignation by finding this "hilarious". Would it not help educate your co-workers to treat them reasonably instead of sarcastically confrontational? Has that approach ever yielded results?

That's one of the main things about outrage culture. Outrage will never convince anyone that they're wrong, it will only make them double down on their original ideas.

I apologize for displaying "flippant indignation" on an Internet forum.

I bet their outrage is actually from things like:

- Being told the term "you guys" is a micro-aggression that disenfranchises marginalized peoples.

- Being scolded for using the term "man hours."

- Being around people who think that a red hand at a crosswalk is emblematic of systemic racism.

- Working with people who look down at spending Thanksgiving with family, and instead rant about how you're celebrating the murder of the native peoples.

... and any other similar non-issue that psychos left and right today are touting as the biggest issues facing people today.

No, I was there. That didn't happen. I think you are falling for what the medium article described.

The whole point of the article is that all of those usually go

"Hey, we should refer to our db nodes as the primary and secondaries, cause master & slave has some historical baggage"

"Yeah, K, not really a big deal"

Not

"OMG YOU CALLED THE DB NODE SLAVE YOU'RE RACIST ARRHRHRGRGRGGRGR"

Then I disagree with the premise of the article, and the dozen or so friends on my Facebook feed that attended Mt Holyoke are proof that this sort of outrage is a real thing.

I think this is a great example of what I mention up thread. kelukelugames helped to spread the outrage with their tone and dog whistles about "privilege". seattle_spring then picked it up and ran with it. Had kelukelugames presented their argument in a less troll-y way, the outrage may have reached a temporary endpoint instead of spreading.

I hear more people complain about Westboro Babtist Church than I hear Westboro Babtist Church complain about anything.

That doesn't mean Westboro Babtist Church is not a problem. It just means the majority is sane.