We've heard of how Twitter is a shitstorm of 1% of the internet making a scene and getting upset for attention over common things they find offensive and want canceled.
I personally had a Twitter for all of under a few hours because I signed up and then realized I had nothing important to say. I'm not a celebrity nor a company. I have some interesting thoughts from time to time, but just write them down in a notepad irl. I don't feel the need to share in however-many-characters-or-less on a random-*** internet site.
All of the Twitter crap I see is not because I follow someone or browse the site. It's all consumed and disseminated through the internet via other people/sites. Basically, I've seen a lot of screencaptures of Twitter posts. Some people go so far as to call these "memes", but they are literally what I just called them. Screencaps of Twitter posts.
Well, I finally saw one that crossed the line for me.
I don't even have the screencap because it wasn't worth saving and this was like two days ago, but I remember it and it stuck out in my head. It said something along the lines of how someone should feel bad for using the word "lame" to describe something because it's insensitive to handicapped people as lame is a term used to describe someone crippled.
Hold up. Wait a minute.
The only time that I have ever heard the word "lame" being used to describe something as crippled is a horse. A horse going lame. That is a phrase I have heard before. Never have I heard something like "Oh, little Tiny Tim went lame so he has to use a crutch".
Horses. That is the only context I have EVER heard it used other than the obvious:
Twitter is really lame.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
People gets offended by anything they want to. Its conscious. And most of time, strategically too.
Its not what you say, but who youre in the bellicose context.
Someone dont like you, then every time you breath, you gonna get him offended. Sad but true.
Thats why we can see some sort of "tolerance" when someone "allied" commit "mistakes" or "offending words", "acts".
But just need some "enemy" to say/do something that can remotelly be interpreted as an offense, then the order is to destroy.
I wont say the context, but here a educational department even went as far as to make a "guide" how people should use or not some words, that can be considered offensive to someone. As if everyone in a category would be supposed to behave like some stereotype manufactured by some media, to feel like they want to feel, etc...
You can call it some type of conspiracy theory but its pretty much like censorship, where every day, more and more words, thoughts, behaviours are considered offensive and you gonna be punished for it, not just publically, even in courts.
The reason is clear. Because anyone whos behind the scenes dont actually want respect from the other party. What he wants is submission. Simple like that.