You Aren’t Really Offended All The Time, So Please Stop Pretending

This, after all, is the country that invented “trigger warnings” to prevent people from encountering opinions that might be traumatic to their fragile psyches.

It’s a country where college campuses set up “safe zones” to shield students from ideas that might be challenging and scary.

It’s a country where a man dressed in women’s underwear cries “transphobia” if he’s asked to leave a restaurant and go put on some clothes.

This is a country where dozens of media outlets have reported for days about a “controversy” surrounding the fact that Ben Affleck’s relatives owned slaves two centuries ago.

This is a country where students at Johns Hopkins want to ban a fast food company from their campus because its owner expressed an opinion two years ago.

This is a country where even our military members are subjected to sensitivity training and “white privilege” seminars.

This is a country where some schools set up anonymous tip lines to report microaggressions, which could include being asked where you’re from and if you speak Spanish.

This is a country where feminists complain that men who spread their legs too far on the subway are sexist.

This is a country where screenings of “American Sniper” are canceled when people complain that the film is “nationalistic” and “Islamaphobic.”

This is the country where people were upset that the smiley face cartoons on their iPhones weren’t ethnically diverse, so Apple provided a more racially sensitive selection, only to make more people upset when other people used them in racially derogatory ways. Finally, a detergent company Tweeted about the emojis and people were upset that the comment seemed racist. So, if you followed that one all the way through, there was controversy over the lack of multi-colored smiley faces, and then controversy about their inclusion, and then controversy about a soap manufacturer making a joke about the controversy.

[link to www.theblaze.com]

Matt Walsh is a brilliant writer

Truly, our society’s bellyaching sissies are in an elite category. They are like the Navy SEALS of offendedness. They demonstrate unmatched skill, dedication, and dexterity in imagining new and exciting ways to be insulted.

But why? Why are we in this permanent state of outrage? Why are we constantly dismayed and disgruntled and disturbed by every little thing?

This is a riddle anthropologists will be debating for centuries to come. They will look back at our culture and wonder what sort of cataclysmic event turned generations of Americans into spineless, translucent, liquefied puddles of whimpering mush. They will argue amongst themselves and write many scholarly articles to explain how there could have ever existed an entire society of finicky, overly emotional schoolgirls.

They will marvel at us. We will be history’s greatest mystery.

[link to www.theblaze.com]

Is everyone offended by this?



Last Edited by Sleeping Giant on 04/24/2015 12:40 PM

I am to the point tbat I may punch the next person I hear say that something was "racist". I am SO SICK AND TIRED of what our country has become.

No responses because the types that are easily offended do not understand this level of intelligent perspective and observation. They are not aware.

And to admit this is true would crush their giant egos and reveal the madness they take part in.

Well now people respond.. lol

This post really offends me.

Enraged at outrage? Hmmm...

Great point!

A nation of pussies and idiots. Run by the twisted and cruel. I have given up on this country. I refuse to have children or work a higher paying. I will not add to the generational numbers and will not make more money to pay more taxes. Fuck the people who live here. They are fools who have been blindsided by their ignorance.

if anyone have the ability to really feel offended by something... that person wont be at this site.

It is easy to be offended 24/7 when you don't have to support yourself and actually think about something other than your "cause."



:1-21 so angry:

Get back to work, taxpayer, you have people to support in the community who choose not to work. We can't have people like you deciding not to support them. You will have to be punished. I think we will take more of your money to punish you for not making more money. Yes, that should be fair. Thank You for cooperating, citizen.

The author is outraged at all the outrage.

Classic.

I doubt that he is outraged...probably tired, sick and tired of all the shit.

It's not your country. It never was.

Why allow the media and the trolls to upset you? You do know that they are paid to upset you, right? Let them do their thing and you can focus on ignoring their drivel and doing your thing.

If you are bothered by them, you are allowing it.
.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... thanks for the laugh I needed it.

Great post!

The cause of this is quite simple to locate....

Propaganda, government controllers and advertisements have turned an entire generation (or two) into emotional non-thinkers. Much easier to get emotional beings to buy, act and vote based on base emotions

Which is why subconscious and subliminal programming works so well. It bypasses consciousness and critical thinking as it pleads to the emotional underbelly of the psyche.

There was a chance to create intelligent moral beings. But the powers in control don't want that. They want monkey masses who are easily controlled. Monkey masses don't question or think...they just react.

I've enjoyed every article I've ever read by Matt.

Thanks for the post, SG!

Why? Litigation. You must constantly put yourself in the place of victim, for pity, attention and possible monetary gain.

Personally, I am of the opinion that if you play victim you give away all of your power. I like to be the victor, I am in control of who offends me. I see ipeople playing victim all of the time, or brainstorming ways in which they can appear a victim for some kind of gain. It is such a warped perception, I like to spend my time and energy fostering a wholesome and fulfilling life and make my owns gains everyday. It is such a waste of time, wasting the day looking for ways to screw people over and make it appear that you are the one getting screwed.

He is a great writer and incredibly brilliant.

This guy just proved my point....

People like him are unable to tell the difference between objective observances vs emotional reactions

The original post was a thinking experiment using observed evidence of the emotional non-thinking masses.

And this ac poster jumps to an emotional non-thinking assumption .. Meanwhile thinking himself so clever... Lol

Your comments suggest that paper money is real. It's not.

Taxpayers don't support people who don't work. The govt uses force and coersion and it steals your "money" so that you don't have it.

Say these two things out-loud.

A tax

Attacks

They sound the same because they are the same. Both the income tax and property tax are attacks against all of us. We all need to work. Taxing our labor without our consent is what happens to slaves. We all have to live somewhere. Taxing our homes is what happens to slaves.

If people don't work, who benefits? The New World Order benefits, which is why all of the jobs went to China. The "leaders" in America are the enemies of the American People.

If people don't pay property tax, the govt steals their home. NOBODY owns a home in America. Everyone rents their home through the property tax system. Get sick? Lose your job? Too bad for you. "Your" home is stolen from you by a govt that you do not control.

Everyone in America was born a slave. Now they are telling us that very thing.