Grow The Fuck Up Already...

[brewer]

Who made up the idea of participation trophies for us millenials?

Gen Xers and Boomers.

Who drilled us on etiquette of not fucking asking people questions that may cause them to feel terrible (like asking your aged Grandpa if he killed anyone in the war or a sexual assault victim what's it like to be sexually assaulted)?

Gen Xers and Boomers.

Millenials are parented mostly by Boomers and Gen Xers.

If y'all truly have some hatred towards those two common millennial blame points, fuck off and look in a mirror. Chances are you're part of the demographic that invented or drilled that shit into our heads.

You failed to give me a trigger warning before you started blaming me. You insensitive bastard.

Please accept this thread participation award.

[Edwardo Piet]

Read that as "mildly incontinent".

projecting ?

Nah. I think my subconscious is just convinced that Jesus no doubt shat himself on a regular basis. He was too busy preaching to go to the toilet.

[Crunchy]

Care to explain how pc and sjw are misapplications of good intentions? 

Not that they always are, but they can be. I'll use Black Lives matter as an example.

I completely empathize with them and understand the emotional reactions to the videos we have been seeing. The right wing response to BLM shows a decided lack of empathy, however looking into the numbers shows that cops do not actually kill blacks disproportionate to their level of crime as compared to whites and Latinos. There are close to 1 million cops in the USA so you can imagine how many millions of encounters take place each year. Given these numbers, terrible incidents are guaranteed to occur. Crooked cops, racist cops, errors in judgement and so on are inevitable and need to be fought on an ongoing basis but...

The problem is that an emotional reaction to a handful of terrible events has led to the vilification of the police en masse, which has led to MORE black lives being lost rather than fewer. It's a good intention gone bad.

[The Grand Nudger]

Unpacking that one would take more time than it's worth, lol.

The vilification of the police is what's led to more black lives being lost, you think?  Here I was thinking that it might be the guns cops fire, and that certain sound they make....that led to more lives lost.  There's never going to be a point where you're going to be able to pin cops shooting people on an organization that protests cops shooting people.  Not with me, at least.

[account_inactive]

The University of Glasgow in Scotland introduced the ‘trigger warnings’ for students taking the class "Creation to Apocalypse: Introduction to the Bible (Level 1)."

Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all.

[Crunchy]

Unpacking that one would take more time than it's worth, lol.

The vilification of the police is what's led to more black lives being lost, you think?  Here I was thinking that it might be the guns cops fire, and that certain sound they make....that led to more lives lost.  There's never going to be a point where you're going to be able to pin cops shooting people on an organization that protests cops shooting people.  Not with me, at least.

I think you misunderstood. I'm not saying that BLM is leading to cops shooting black people. 

I think that the massive increase in the homicide rate (mostly black victims) in Chicago has already been identified as being caused by police being to afraid to do their jobs for fear of being labelled racist. The number of increased homicides easily exceeds the number of blacks shot by cops. Clearly, the police that BLM has identified as the problem, are actually needed to prevent black lives from being lost.
This is what I meant by unintended consequences. The laudable intent of BLM has lead to more black lives being lost.

[The Grand Nudger]

That;s about the limpest excuse I've ever seen offered for why a civil servant would suddenly stop doing their job.  How is that the fault of pc or sjw....in any case? Sounds like a thin skinned cop problem to me. More than that, I find it amusing that cops would be so sensitive to being called racists, when they don't mind actually -being- instruments of institutional racism?

The police that BLM have identified as the problems are the ones that beat darkies like hotcakes, or worse.......that's not preventing crime, it -is- a crime. I;'ll say this, though, you see this as an unintended consequence. I don't. The cops are protesting oversight by failing to perform their duties. It's dereliction, and it's not exactly unintentional. More an issue of "well, fuck em them" than "how on earth could this have happened?". The cops don';t prevent crime in the first place, so this all seems like a giant steaming pile of excuses for dirtbag cops, you know, we just need them so much that some dirtbaggery is to be expected and brunted.

[Amarok]

Ah the poor babies don't wanna be called racists so they'll pussy out and not do the job we pay them to do. Fuck it why are we turning to these wimps to protect us then if they can't handle some mean language.

As for BLM yeah it's totally there fault for holding police accountable for there crimes against blacks. Crimes they more then often get away with bad BLM bad.

[I_am_not_mafia]

I used to know a girl whose sexual fantasy was to be crucified. She was brought up in the Catholic faith.

[The Grand Nudger]

I'm starting to wonder why this ones worried about a millennial drift to the right, he's way ahead of us on that count.