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Tired Of People Getting Offended By Things They Don’t Even Understand!
It is one thing to be offended by profanity and/or insults. Honestly given I warn people in certain articles that I’m going to open up with both barrels, that’s fine as I’m aware that some of my articles could be offensive.
It is entirely different when people take offense at words or things they know nothing about. Or that they misread or take out of context, or focus on a single word or two ignoring everything around it like a cat focused on a laser pointer. It honestly feels like some people just walk around hoping to be offended. “The Karens amongst us”. This is why so many social movements that I support the idea of, are their own worst enemies thanks to their “culture”. Thus why when I hear the term “social movement” my brain autocorrects that first word to “bowel”.
Asinine bull I’ve dealt with since I was a child.
The Vintage Karen
Back when I was in the 7th grade near-on 4 decades ago I was in a hobby store looking at plastic models with a friend. I said “ooh, this one has retards” and the owner’s wife LOST HER FREAKING MIND screaming at us not to use language like that.
I was referring to the bombs on the bottom of a F-4 Phantom II plastic model. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s a…