IMO: I'M A TRIGGERED AND I'M BORED

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Hi, i'm a special snowflake and one of my favorite hobbies is being triggered.
See, my parents, especially my father didn't give me enough love growing up so I'm always
crying for attention.
That's why my hair color changes weekly and I'm constantly virtue signaling and calling
things "problematic".
When you call me an SJW, i'm offended because technically, I'm a level 90 Social Justice
Mage and if you want to be politically correct, you will respect my pronouns.
I'm a feminist, of course, which means I hate all men and I'm transgender so I, of course,
own various "down with cis" t-shirts.
I'm black and i'm just waiting for the moment when I can finally have white slaves and I'm
a huge advocate for cuckoldry and miscegenation.
I've heard this crap so often that I could write the script,
but to the people who watched the first part of this video and just thought i was finally
becoming self aware, these are all unique, fresh and new jokes that no one's ever heard
before.
I saw this post in my feed today: A teenage boy wearing a "Meninist" Tshirt with the caption
"looks over, sees chick staring me down- Me: Yes, the trigger is working".
Ha ha ha, TRIGGERED!
That's so funny.
This post made me thing about a somewhat recent phenomenon where people like this say or do
something that they think is offensive to specifically fish for negative responses.
And once they get those negative responses, they scream "triggered"- and that's supposed
to be the joke.
To me though, what's actually funny is that they truly believe that other people find
these things offensive- especially when they're using the same uncreative jokes over and over
again.
During the Day Without Women protest, Colin Moriarty a big name in gaming journalism,
posted this hilarious tweet: Ah.
Peace and quiet.
#ADayWithoutAWoman So funny..
Edgy and Unbiased news commentator Dave Rubin reshared the tweet with the caption "BREAKING:
Man makes joke.
Bigoteers get triggered."
and Colin retweeted it!
Here you have a bunch of so-called adults utilizing the same exact logic of an edgy
teenager in their Meninist shirt.
Any reaction that isn't affirmation is a simply someone being "triggered".
What's interesting , though, is when you look at the tweets of the people who were critical
of the post, they aren't from people who are overly offended or don't understand that the
tweet was a joke.
They just consider it to be in poor taste.
No one's raging or calling for a boycott-they just disagree.
Interestingly enough, something you often hear from the "get triggered" camp say is
that "so-called SJWs" just don't like people disagreeing with them..
That SJWs just can't handle dissent.
But here you have a group of people who've created a failsafe that allows them to avoid
criticism simply on the premise that the people rendering it are just triggered snowflakes
looking for a reason to be offended.
So instead of ever considering that their positions are wrong, they can remain unchallenged
and feel morally just.
Sound a lot like a self-righteous SJW, but I digress.
In my Opinion, the triggered meme is played out.
I see more people regurgitating the same boring triggered jokes on the premise that these
reactions are just so common, than I've ever heard people say that they were triggered-
and I'm feminist.
All I see are a bunch of people going out of their way to try to be offensive who refuse
to believe that they could possibly have not so great ideas.
Colin, predictably, went on to call people humorless and canceled his appearance at PAX
east.
He withdrew from a speaking engagement because of criticism- even from his own coworkers.
If I were a jerk, who didn't understand what words meant, I would say he ran off into a
safe space, but I'm positive that he has his reasons.
In My Opinion: This is all rather ironic.
At the heart of people who facetiously give trigger warnings and unironically use the
word "snowflakes", is this notion that the people who disagree with their ideas are simply
unwilling to truly engage with dissent.
Engaging in dissent that requires you to honestly look at the arguments people have against
what you're saying and consider them for what they are, not what you believe or assume them
to be.
Triggered jokes aren't offensive or triggering, they're just boring, and, to me, the biggest
special snowflakes are the ones who haven't outgrown their too edgy for you phase by the
age for 40.

IMO: I'M A TRIGGERED AND I'M BORED

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