[burnished]

Yeah, it would be pretty reasonable to tell people that you found something upsetting. You should give it a try. It doesn't need to be a universal maxim for people to care about and respect your feelings in the spaces you occupy.

[Grustaf]

Do you think anyone would take that seriously? I sure hope anyone I associate would just laugh and presume that I'm joking. It just isn't reasonable to be that sensitive. It certainly isn't adaptive, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was something about it in DSM.

[burnished]

Sorry, you're confusing the hell out of me, is this a way that you feel or not? Pretending to care about something in order to score points is bad behavior.

[Grustaf]

Pretending to care? I am not saying I care about communist symbols, I am saying it would be absurd if I did, I wasn’t in the war. And yes I agree that all the people that pretend that the word ”master” is an issue are behaving badly. It’s pointless virtue signaling by proxy.