[jacobolus]

> The left is overly sensitive and looks for things to be offended by.

This is total nonsense. In the modern political climate everyone is looking for things to be offended by.

(It just happens that the “left” is offended by people getting beat up, sexually harassed, prevented from exercising their basic rights, etc., whereas the “right” is offended by the phrase “happy holidays”, by trans-gender people using one bathroom or another, by football players kneeling to protest police brutality, and so on.)

Or more to the point, media / social media that fixates on why readers should be offended and aggrieved are much more “viral” than other types of messaging. It’s hard to blame individuals for this, as they have been under intense psychological attack by a combination of deliberate propaganda and accidental harmful features of modern media. I say we need much stronger education in media literacy, and better cultural/structural systems for keeping media accountable for basic honesty.

[tomp]

You can easily find just as, and more, ridiculous examples on the left. Offended by jokes, tshirts, suggestions that unborn children's lives have value, praise of Israel, using biologically and factually correct terms for people, suggestions that people shouldn't be discriminated against, pointing out scientific/genetic facts, ...

[ivraatiems]

Who decides what examples are ridiculous and what examples aren't?

[tomp]

Exactly.

[iherbig]

I'd like to point out that the only assertion I was making was that these are the common beliefs that the public consciousness holds as truisms, irrespective of reality.