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What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right? (lemmy.world)

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Me personally? I've become much less tolerant of sexist humor. Back in the day, cracking a joke at women's expense was pretty common when I was a teen. As I've matured and become aware to the horrific extent of toxicity and bigotry pervading all tiers of our individualistic society, I've come to see how exclusionarly and objectifying that sort of 'humor' really is, and I regret it deeply.

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[-] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

See, often times this exact sentence is also just used by people as an excuse to be an asshole. Which I think is equally as big a problem.

I am not sensitive at all, but if some random dude comes up to me and calls be a big, ugly dumbass? Ima be honest, that dude's getting punched probably.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe not the violence but, but this is basically how people are supposed to handle being upset: you take responsibility and action.

Instead people do nothing to solve the problem directly, and instead go around telling the whole world that it needs to change to accommodate them.

[-] Cringe2793@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Perhaps. This is a targeted attack on you though. So you're naturally expected to be angry and attack someone. It's not the same thing. False equivalency.

What's happening here is censorship of others because you don't like it. Censoring others is not the right way to do things. You can't just go around telling people to change just because someone might be offended.

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