How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm (2016)

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.

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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.

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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?

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