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Re:How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm (2016) by pessimizer on Saturday October 23, 2021 @08:41AM (#28967854)
The 1950s, a time of reduced sensitivity. The kind of reduced sensitivity where the military had to be called out to invade states, and put down actual riots, sparked by black children trying to go to school with the children of white parents who were definitely not triggered and not mad.

It's the wild growth of certain sorts of sensitivities that certain sorts of people are finding a problem. Nobody remembers the "good old days" as a time of hedonism, where everybody did their own thing, where beliefs and behaviors weren't policed, and couldn't result in you being ostracized socially. In the good old days, you could not only get canceled, you could get lynched.

Re:How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm (2016) by mcphage on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:57AM (#28969121)
This is the real answer to bullshit articles like this. Kids today are too sensitive? Previous generations would throw a fit if a black person drank from the same water fountain, or sat near the front of the bus. That’s being over sensitive.
Re:How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm (2016) by FleaFlicker99 on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:21PM (#28974360)
No, people are concerned when 'kids' call out an innocent action (a glance, let's say) from a teacher a 'microaggression' and have their parents call in and threaten them.

There are countless examples of this kind of behaviour across all of society now. Writing this off with a racist strawman argument that you just invented sounds like a bad faith response to me. Which honestly is one of the tactics (purposefully taking the least generous interpretation) that is so popular among the silence-is-violence crowd.

Re:How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm (2016) by mcphage on Sunday October 24, 2021 @08:09AM (#28977166)
…you think that I invented separate water fountains for white people and non-white people? Or forcing black people to the back of the bus? Are you that ignorant of US history?