Why do people think people in the past weren't easily offended? (enemies, drugs)
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^^^^This. We now have people taking to Facebook if they're a server and they get a bad tip. Or a cop whining because the barista at Starbucks didn't let them use the bathroom.
Every slight or perceived slight has to be put online.
This is nothing. People have dueled over slights, going back to the early days of America.
Just in case people didn't know who Wendell Wilkie was. He was best known as the GOP candidate against FDR and he got crushed quite badly. I think we all know the GOP of the past isn't the GOP of today so it wasn't really a political statement or anything. Also, wanted to point that out to show people at the top did know certain things were offensive even back then. FDR, for example, banned Fu Manchu from being published during WWII since it was offensive to Chinese people who were allies during WWII.
I just wanted to keep the politics out of it. So much discussion over D vs R.
I agree with the OP. In the past people were wayyyy more fearful and offended by others, especially people who were different from them. People got so offended, and scared of others, that they willfully voted for public officials who prided themselves on discrimination. For decades, people were so easily offended, that they cosigned the government legislating peoples lives into misery. Whether black, gay, divorced, etc... it didn't take much to stand out in civil disobedience.
When looking at TV shows back then, couples often slept in separate beds (and married couples at that). People were offended by the sexual implications of a couple sleeping in the same bed. People got offended if a black person drank from a white water fountain. People got offended if you didn't bow down to Christianity. What you have today, is social media making everyone's personal thoughts, public. Opinions are just more accessible.
These are good points though there's one thing you are forgetting:
With social media and liberalized social issues (Civil Rights, Women's Rights) people have been thrust together like never before in the past 40 years.
Where the "offensive" situations come into play is generally displayed in 2 ways:
1. Conservatives, sometimes out of racism/sexism/bigotry, not adjusting.
2. Liberals, some meaning well others just authoritarian a-blanks, promoting diversity.
I tried making that as nice and neat as possible. This is pretty much how every debate on this board goes. Our Leave it to Beaver racist cons vs. SJWs/wannabe Black Panthers usually lead the way with centrists (though still statist) trying to steady the ship. In reality, both "sides" are authoritarian.
More and more I have become critical of the statist left because it seems to me their agenda is much more transparent. Though that is generally the case because they want change and not the status quo. They also seem to be willing to go to extreme lengths to accomplish their collectivist utopia. To the point some of their agendas are so illogical and stunning to even a good number of folks in their own camp.
I guess we'll just ignore that time when 14 year old Emmit Till did nothing but WHISTLE at a woman, and was brutally murdered for doing so.
But Nah...his murderers and the woman weren't easily offended, aye?
Nahhh...couldn't be.
Oh and they were acquitted for that too.
Instead of whining about blacks folks having successful thriving neighborhoods and how they were upset that they came home from the war and had nothing to come home too. Instead of whining to the government or there neighbors They just went there and tore up those neighborhoods and killing off the people in them in the process.
Yeah they sure nuff kept there feelings to themselves...
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what you describe s being offended, is actually breaking etiquette and protocol. time was you didnt call after 8 or 9, or 10pm unless it was an emergency, mostly because people had to get up early in the morning to go to work/school.
there wasnt the PC movement where any wrong bit of language, or what today would be considered an improper word would set someone off. for instance using the N word back then was part fo the language lexicon, same with using the words negro and black when talking about "african-americans". today though, as the phrase in the south goes, "thems fightin words". why? i can understand the N word, since it is a bastardized version of the french world for black(negro).
but that is only a start. too many other things have made people very thin skinned these days. we keep changing the language to take out the pain that some words seem to create, while still trying to describe people.
Are you serious?
Tell that to an interracial or gay couple in the 1950s, who couldn't even hold hands in public without horrifying the public. Or do you think *that* was merely a breach of 'etiquette'?
People are offended no more than they used to be, it's just about different things now. And now with the internet, people can whine to the world. If people in the 50s had access to the internet, you'd better believe they'd have been doing the exact same thing.
But instead, they could only grumble to their friends and neighbors.
What about when the little rock 9 were just trying to go to school. I guess these people kept there feelings to themselves and didn't whine that there schools were being intergrated
What was is the past --the problem lies there are quite a few people who want to go back to that. That is a huge problem. My story was as a teen always felt so uncomfortable in Macy's high end stores. They pierced there eyes on every move you made. Ughhhhh , sorry I don't like those kinds of people. Old bats!
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“College students are unable to emotionally cope with ideas that conflict with their own,” fellow WeRoar member Kyle Brady added. “This has created a progressive movement nation-wide to limit free speech. Whether it be through safe spaces or vague speech codes, millennials have begun to strip themselves of their own right to free speech."
It's really quite startling what's happening on college campuses.
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