[lazyjones]

It's a good analysis but misses the central issue with today's "culture war": people in a B type society aren't actually overly concerned with their emotions, they just pretend to be mentally fragile in order to exert power by demanding compliance. It's a sanctioned form of violence. Sure, some fragile nutcases exist too, but they're just exploited by the majority of SJW folks.

[mpalmer]

To be responsible for the feelings of others requires the assumption of good faith on the part of the "feeler".

Personally, I want to be able to make this assumption, to have this trust. Because the A/B balance seems to be tipping.

But it's so easy to say "I feel Less Safe when you say X". It's only human to notice that some words and phrases take on power. Only human to want to use that power to protect yourself.

So instead of owning your own feelings, you own that of everyone in the group. And online, that's everyone. Some people online will claim injury even when there is none, or when they imagine they're speaking for others who are staying silent.

The result is a discourse so sanded-down and smooth that it achieves only the distinction of offending no one.

[CodeyWhizzBang]

I don't think you can fairly say that type P pretend to mentally fragile. There are plenty of people who will be genuinely upset.

Isn't the issue that it allows bad actors to pretend to take offence and we don't have a mechanism of validating whether the offence is real or malicious?

[zozbot234]

Psychological fragility is a real thing. It may well be more common than we realize.