Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger words and safe spaces

Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @02:02PM (#11481951)

And you, sir, are becoming the problem you're complaining about. Don't kid yourself that it's fine for you to do because of the targets you're choosing.

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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by mgbmtl on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:36PM (#11483351)

It is far from being a level playing field. The message varies greatly depending on the sender, receiver and context, right? I think it's quite OK to call out your fellow stereotype when they're being dicks.

And while we're at it, since this thread is going down into "this is reverse racism": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M

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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:51PM (#11483476)

> It is far from being a level playing field.

So that makes it fair to unfairly stereotype others?

> I think it's quite OK to call out your fellow stereotype when they're being dicks.

Call out your fellow [members of a group that contains you] when they're being dicks, sure. We need that. But don't stereotype them to do it - we don't need that.

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