Comment by ativzzz
5 years ago
Look, there has never been a part of history when you could be an unrestricted asshole and say whatever you want without consequences. Never. People have always been snowflakes. How about when people used to duel to the death over an insult? Your only solace is that before the internet and TV and mass communication, you could only be an asshole to your local community members.
Now, you have the power of being an unrestricted asshole to a larger audience than ever before. This, unsurprisingly, has even more consequences. In addition, this audience is more diverse than ever, with different opinions, backgrounds, upbringings, preferences, etc. Yes, just as always, there are people who are offended.
And just as always, you have to know your audience. Just like in the past, you wouldn't go to the local aristocrat and talk shit to them, you should know better than to go on Twitter and talk shit. Find your friend group, and say what you want with them. Like you always could. If you can't, find different friends.
People really underestimate how much power is given to them to have a near infinite audience on social media. But that power goes both ways.
you're proving my point perfectly.
i didn't say anything about being an "unrestricted asshole", racist, insulting or attacking anyone deliberately. i simply stated that if you're not in line with the PC terms dejour of the week, you run the risk of being ostracized. you're not a snowflake if someone attacks you and you defend yourself. you have every right to.
however when someone calls you sir, cause you know you're a guy, and you jump down their throat cause they aren't recognizing your non-binary lifestyle of feeling like a girl that day, that's being a dumb ass and an example of how the world is today.
Following are deliberate insults: "over sensitive millennials" and "non-binary morons".
> you're not a snowflake if someone attacks you and you defend yourself. you have every right to.
I guess that is exactly what people do and you act shocked.
those aren't deliberate insults, i'm describing exactly the type of people i encounter on a daily basis.
Sorry I didn't use my words properly. What I meant instead of 'unrestricted asshole' was more 'saying whatever you want without taking into account how people are going to react'.
So yes, when you speak, you have to speak according to the societal norms present at the time. Like we always have had to.
The difference being is that your audience is near infinite and it is near impossible to please everyone, unless you speak in a very deliberate and neutral manner.
Based on your tone and the implication of how you wrote out
> however when someone calls you sir, cause you know you're a guy, and you jump down their throat cause they aren't recognizing your non-binary lifestyle of feeling like a girl that day, that's being a dumb ass and an example of how the world is today.
I assume you don't speak in a deliberately neutral manner and your manner of writing is inflammatory, so you piss people off.
I might be jumping to conclusions here but so many comments I've read on HN that were asking "why is this getting downvoted? echo chamber, PC blahblah". No, the reality is they just come off as an asshole due to their style of writing posts. (exactly like your post that I'm replying to right now)