zenosanalytic:

captainsnoop:

captainsnoop:

the idea that people nowadays are more sensitive and easy to offend than they were in the past is such horseshit. people used to throw hands if you stepped on their shadow and calling a person a coward was legally justifiable grounds for them to challenge you to a duel with pistols.

since some people are having trouble understanding what i meant here, i would like to clarify that i am 100% mocking the hypocrisy of people who idolize the “good old days when people weren’t offended by everything” and then turn around and whine about how sjws are ruining their lives

if you’re whining about sjws in the comments of this post please know that i am making fun of you and that the old white relative you idolize for “giving no fucks” probably cried himself to sleep last night when he saw an interracial couple in a target commercial 

And the thing is most of those complaints about “sensitivity” are, themselves, examples of offense-taking. Every article ever written about leftist campus protest was written to complain about some millionaire not “being allowed” to speak, unchallenged, at a university and get paid(with those students’ fees) for the pleasure. Every article ever written about “PC Campus Culture” or “Leftist Academia” was written to complain about right-wing views not being accepted and propagated uncritically as university policy. Hell: Republican state govs, like that of Missouri, are going so far as to cut funding for their state schools in an attempt to force them to cover subjects in a particular way(and suppress student speech the pols in the lege don’t agree with).

The point of this offense-taking over “sensitivity” has always been shutting up people the offense-taker doesn’t want to listen to, rather than a genuine concern for how thin-skinned contemporary society is. What these folks complaining about “sensitivity” and “pc culture” are really longing for is a past where women who talked about rape and harassment were shamed; where non-whites who complained about racism were ignored; where gays and transfolks and queers were not only silenced, but erased. What they’re praising isn’t really some non-existent past when their ancestors “gave no fucks”, but the very real and deadly past when the only voice that mattered in our culture was male and white.