> These are people for God's sake. Empathy!

One man's empathy is another man's hatred.

From my perspective your take and actions in this thread is itself completely devoid of empathy.

The reason for colorful language breaking through professionalism is because there is real human emotion behind those words. Real pain and suffering, lost time in the life that will never be regained, an ever widening bald spot from the stress. That type of thing yearns to be expressed in a way that generic corpo speak is by design unable to communicate.

Your response to these emotions is to simply stick your head in the sand(aka refuse to read the blog post)? Worse yet, even without that context, you are here trying to convince those around you to also stick their heads in the sand?

To dream up scenarios where theoretical someones in a giant faceless corp might maybe possibly be offended? Instead of trying to listen and understand the person already in front of you who has actually been offended?

Again everything is a matter of perspective, but from mine your comments severely lack the empathy you supposedly call for.

Treating grown up people like little kids is a major problem. If that was a stressor which requires defensive actions such as this one, what are you good for in life?

Feeling empathy for their pathetic fragile existence doesn't mean you sympathise with said fragility.

Not being able to control your anger issues and name calling ppl as a public face of your org sounds pretty fragile to me.

I think this is called projection. Not everyone is angry when name calling someone.

Yeah the tone matters.

If people get hurt over that they need to take some courses on building confidence...

Right, those black people who get offended by being called that just need confidence, right? Those LGBT are so sensitive and can’t handle the colorful names we call them! Imagine that. This kind of comment shows how HN commenters can be so incredibly hateful while thinking they are righteous, which is the worst kind of people, it’s the atitude that leads to the most terrible policies and behavior ever seen on this planet.

Or you grow up and see these kinda things within the right context and brush off whats easy to brush off. Obvious racial slurs or discriminating insults towards a whole community is obviously something different. But you sound like the type of person to cancel a comedian over a joke.

People indeed need a thicker skin