I'm starting to wonder if these are real people or just bots. I only see this stuff online, never with real people, so it causes my solipsism to kick in a bit (that may not be exactly the right philosophy). But maybe I just don't interact with enough real people, or people are too wimpy to say anything in real life. I am incredulous at how readily people (twitter users, sometimes Redditors) willfully misconstrue things to the worst possible degree. Also, hyperbole is no longer hyperbole, and nuance is dead. In a world where everything is "on a spectrum", apparently, political belief is binary; you're either a Neo-Marxist or a Neo-Nazi, and that can be determined by one innocuous word choice or even by saying nothing at all apparently (e.g. Chris Pratt recently).
Sorry if I took your point too far.
Bruh, I can't really tell if you are leaning towards my opinion or the oposite way. I'm a bit lost in translation here, sory.
But I can asure you that I'm not a bot
You don't really need to interact with people to find that, you just need to watch the news. What happed in France the other day it's a very extreme case of this I'm talking. One person holds something, a second makes fun of it and in the worst ouptut blood goes to the river. It's a terrible thing. Humanity it's going backwards so quickly.
PS: Idk what the Chris Pratt thingy is
Sorry, I was agreeing with you. When I said "These people", I was referring to all the people who get offended or outraged by things easily, not you. My post basically boils down to this: "people always assume the worse of others instead of giving the benefit of the doubt" and "everyone is extreme now with no middle ground allowed."
If you are referring to the teacher who was beheaded, that is indeed terrible. I am really shocked by the number of Islamic terrorist attacks in France over the past few years, but that is another can of worms so to speak. France always stands out as a liberal nation that puts great value on freedom of speech, so to see that threatened is disheartening.
people that are mad you can't tell offensive jokes anymore really do love to jerk off each other's victim complexes
and yeah, weird how Chris Pratt being a republican that goes to mega-church had made people like him less, maybe there are some characteristics of those groups that people don't like
Being crucified by a mob that constantly sees red because someone misspoke, did something innocuous, or
didn't say anything is a problem (Recently there's be a saying "silence is violence". Uh, no, neither words nor the lack of words is violence, which is literally defined as physical force). Or, you know, getting your head cut off for showing a cartoon of a religious figure is a problem too. Yes, telling jokes in bad taste simply to hurt someone or a group is bad thing too, but making people too scared to say anything critical of anything or anyone is worse. FWIW, I'm not a Christian. I just think it's ridiculous to lambast someone when not only did he not do anything, but he didn't say anything either.
Furthermore, I'd wager silencing people and trying to ruin their lives probably gives them the feeling of having nothing to lose, which makes them (more) dangerous. You can't win everyone over, but bad ideas should die out by being challenged by good ones instead.
Bullying and shaming are bad unless they are propping up a certain viewpoint, apparently. This is the power of the Internet, I guess.
I see. I was in London right around the time when people decided to run cars in the sidewalk of bridges and then stabbing people. Dude, it was scary to walk on high transit areas cause you never knew if someone wanted to do something stupid.
My boss at that time taught me that the best way to deal with those situations as a society that's being attacks was humor. He is a comedian so he understands the psychology of it. He loved to make dark humor jokes that do really well el with my sense of humour.
Showed me that when you make people laugh of something that looks serious or tabu of sorts, it suddenly looses that importance to it and people is more open.
It really marked me
That makes sense. I think I took your idea in a different direction, but adding levity to a situation can definitely help in serious times.