[j6zauas4gz]

I dont think you are right about that, but for the sake of this comment lets assume that you are right and that this will create snowflakes.

Even if that's true on the macro scale its still incredibly useful to keep in mind the impact your language has on the mind of the person you are communicating with. If my goal is to get the person I am communicating with to do a thing, most of the time idgaf about whether or not I contributing to them becoming a snowflake. It does not matter why the persona you are talking to is getting offended. Offending people is counter-productive, so it should be avoided if you can avoid it.

[quesera]

I agree with you, because in the real world I do need to talk to people -- and people come in all psychological shapes and sizes!

But on the flip side, there are few things I personally dislike more than being spoken to by someone who is being cautious of my feelings.

It's slow. It's tedious. Most of them are bad at it. And honestly it's more disrespectful to imagine that you are going to upset me, than to just bravely take that risk.

I concede that I'm the weird one. But we do exist.

[sagaro]

The issue with that line of thought, where people are justified to take offense to anything and then you ought to watch your language to not offend them to make things productive, is there is no limit to what people can take offense to.

A few days back I saw how using the thumbs up emoji offends people. Eventually, we will all be discussing at the least common denominator, the lowest quality of talk, because everything will offend everyone.

Point is to educate people that it is stupid to take offense to such things, because there are better things to do in life than be offended because someone said some word.