Comment by thrownaway954
5 years ago
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)