It's probably related to your location. My guess is you're not on a coast and don't live next to a college or deal with 18-22 year old kids where they feel empowered.

In Australia, on a coast, deal with uni students all the time.

People with privilege have a strong persecution complex. Complaining about safe spaces and trigger warnings is one way to feed it.

A gracious unwillingness to burden acquaintances && passersby with one's own neuroses is now "privilege". Likewise, being annoyed at having to walk on eggshells around unstable hysterics on campus is a "persecution complex".

I do my best to empathize with the obviously distressed.

That does not extend to humoring the slingers of pseudoclinical quasi-academic cant like "privilege" or "persecution complex" or "trigger warning". That kind of tedious priss-spigot sanctimony needs to be shown the back of a hand.

> needs to be shown the back of a hand.

This violates the HN guidelines. Please don't escalate incivility like that, regardless of how provocative someone else's comments may be. Instead, please (re-)read site guidelines and post civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

If people telling you to watch your language triggers you to the point of making violent threats then you are over privileged. Dismissing others as hysterics and wanting to backslap them demonstrate a lack of empathy.

In general, when a smug moral imperialist tells me to watch my language, I see it as an invitation to dial the taunting up to eleven. Why resort to violence, when it is so easy to make them press their (very accessible) Emotional Self-Destruct buttons?

Also, being slapped by a Badthinker such as myself would confirm their Sacred Victimhood; my handprint on their gob would be like stigmata on a medieval saint. Deep down, they'd love it in a very disturbing way that I refuse to participate in.

As to my so-called 'privilege', I suppose I can cop to being raised in a milieu where we desired to do no insult to others, on the assumption that we would be given reciprocal goodwill and consideration, unless we were explicitly looking for a fight.

(That is what used to be called 'carrying a chip on one's shoulder', if you are unfamiliar with the idiom.)

The practice of actively courting offense as a method of social signalling would have been seen as perverted and maladaptive.

This isn't about actual psychically wounded people who may need support, or therapy or drugs. This is about filth that use other people's mental anguish (real or imagined) as the base cosmology of a faith of their own creation. It has it's own dogma, and part of being Elect is to denounce heretics. Guilt-tripping innocent people into feeling bad about maybe thinking a crank or malingerer is...a crank or malingerer.

However, given the nullity of soul in most of Misery-Worship's practitioners, once you've heard one denouncement, you can script the rest. It's like listening to a chi-com cadre loudly quote Mao at you from the little red book, or having a particularly inept Scientologist try to audit you.

(Quick, search and replace "trigger" with "charge" and "privilege" with "Body Thetan" and "othered" with "exteriorization". The parallels are eerie...)

If I tell you to use my preferred pronouns is that just cause for taunting? I've had people say so in various instances offline and online. So I can't say there's really any room for that sort of behavior (at least offline).

Have a preferred pronoun? You must be a smug imperalist!

How do these Hacker News users have so much time to write about safe spaces?

You should find healthier hobbies. Then maybe you wouldn't waste time imagining confrontations by courting perverts or whatever.

> A gracious unwillingness to burden acquaintances && passersby with one's own neuroses is now "privilege".

QOTD