Originally Posted by Guest

Sorry, if something offends one person, then it has to go. The new America. There you go, live with it or change it. Time for the majority to have a voice for a change and quit worrying so much about one person being offended. That's how we mature, by living with challenges.

Now, the POW flag is offensive to the pacifists, so they want it destroyed.

In my opinion, there is a difference between good manners and PC. Manners is knowing when not to use offensive language. PC is being afraid to to speak less you offense someone's sensitivities.

My wife wonders why I don't socialize very frequently. It's because I speak my piece, regardless of PC. But, I do have enough manners not to purposely try to offend. I find it offensive that being offensive is permitted for the Hollywood, comedy and musicians, but everyone else has to toe the line when it comes to "offensive" terms. Sorry, but think some folks just have thin skin and need to get a life.

Don't try to teach my grandchildren a new history. Don't teach them that what they learned in church is biased. And don't teach them that being wealthy is bad. And most of all don't teach them that American exceptionalism is evil. We are the best country in the World and no one should apologize for that. NOT EVEN THE PRESIDENT.

We are a country of majority. The majority makes the rules. Like it or not. Americans do not purposely attempt to hurt those that don't believe as we do, but we should not change our way of life to suit a small group of sensitive folks. If we feel that something is morally unacceptable, who are you to call us bigots. We tolerate something, but may not condone it. That does not make us bigots. Don't try to force us to accept your way or change our way. You accept that we do not agree with you and we are the majority. If you wish conformance, then you conform with the majority, not the other way around. I don't like cabbage but my wife does. She can eat it, but don't try to make me eat it. I don't forbid her from eating it and she doesn't force me to eat it. That way, we both get along. I don't get upset and wreck the house.

Unfortunately the high lighted statement above is no longer tue in America.
is in itself a separate topic for another thread.

I posted #74 about this cover of Atlantic in response to the mocking and derisive tone used about this subject, especially to the OP.

One poster said they looked it up, because They never heard of it, and thought it was "funny".

Because you are not aware of things does not mean they don't exist and does not mean they are funny.

Originally Posted by Guest

I had never heard the phrase "trigger warning" before today. I looked it up and recognize it. On television, the warning about "graphic situation and content" before "Law and Order" is a warning for parents to decide if they want their kids to look at the show. I can also understand how a rape victim might be traumatized by watching a show with a graphic rape scene. Those triggers are real! For example, I have had an extremely painful dislocated shoulder accident. I cannot comfortably see a person in a tv or movie situation who has a dislocated shoulder. I can only imagine what the feeling would be for a victim of a sexual assault seeing that on television.

I also looked up micro-aggressions. I did not think before how those could actually be hurtful to others. I am going to try and be more careful in what I say.

This makes a lot of sense. Before this thread, i had never heard of trigger warnings or micro-aggressions.

I have a friend who had a close call in a house fire several years ago. She now cannot watch a movie that contains scenes of fires. That, like the dislocated shoulder and rape trauma, are forms of PTSD. Basically, the triggers will set off remembered incidents that are too painful to endure.

The micro-aggressions might be hurtful to a few people who have thin skins but are usually not given in a way that was meant to convey belittling another person. Grow up and take it in the spirit of which it was intended.