Yeah, when you have a whole segment of the population planning to confront transpeople in bathrooms en masse armed with pepper-spray and guns, that needs addressed expeditiously.

I guess the point is, yes, all of those issues you bring up are valid concerns, but at the same time its not like he’s not focusing on them and focusing on this instead. North Carolina decided to make this an issue, and the part of the government tasked with civil rights got involved. NC escalated by suing and this,…

It became the center of attention because conservatives decided to make it the center of attention. No one was policing bathrooms before conservative states tried to make trans/gender non-conforming people an issue. But now that they couldn’t hate on LGB people they decided to go after the T. Obama and the White House…

While the DoJ has been making this clear for a while, it’s still awesome to have the President just come out and say this.

This is awesome. I had the benefit of going to college later in life, so I was able to laugh at the “go out there and change the world” bullshit they spewed at us during the graduation ceremony as just that. But you’re right. The world sucks more and harder everyday, and the assholes aren’t going anywhere. The only…

In this environment it is frowned upon. We are calling you out on it.

Not necassarily but defenitely more connected to their peers and the world and able to associate with people who are different from themselves at an exponentially higher level. It took my buddies dad going to vietnam and fighting a war with black dudes to really know and understand they were alike. Now kids grow up…

I saw a movie once where some guy said, “that’s gay” and a woman replied, “how come when you mean stupid, you say ‘gay’”? It cracked me up and made me realize that it was kind of stupid to say “gay” when I meant “stupid”.

I actually talk about this a lot with my gay friend. (Yes, I went there, and no its not an opinion all gay people have to share, just a better person to bounce this idea off of.) He agrees some things are “gay” even figuratively. But we ended up at the point where it’s best to just follow general convention of…

I just had a conversation with a fresh out of college guy that works for me. He had this massive reaction to a perceived slight by someone else, which basically amounted to being told he was doing something wrong (which he was), and he emailed like 3 directors and 2 people in HR about how inappropriate x, y & z was,…

I would posit it’s not students, but the people opposing them and their safe spaces, that have a problem with history. It’s why people freak the fuck out if you try to talk about slavery, or the genocide of the Native Americans, or bombing Japan, etc. They can’t handle historical facts because America is only ever…

“But out in the real world, it usually pays to not be an insensitive, judgmental prick.”

The younger generation also being better educated than the older one.

Life is tough, no one is gonna give 2 shits about your sensativities or your need for a safe space. No one is going to change their ingrained asshole behaviors because you cover your ears and say “Nanner Nanner, I can’t hear you!” What you’re gonna hafta do is stop being such a pussy and grow a set, like now

Part of the reason for the backlash against PC culture is that political correctness almost always involves a younger generation telling an older generation that they’ve been doing things wrong their entire life (“God, Dad, you can’t call them Orientals anymore...”), and any time you’re being told by someone decades…

I think what you mean is, you miss the days when you would say that and no one would call you an asshole for it.

Twitter eggs and Facebook uncles who bitch about their freedom of speech being corrupted because other people had the gall to exercise theirs...And so now there is a fight between a relatively small number of people arguing for safe spaces—on campus and online and wherever else there’s bound to be discourse—and a…

A vast majority of the other workplaces in the world are “safe spaces,” where employees should be free from harassment, offensive language, and violence. Glad you found a place where “free speech” reigns though. Water finds its own level.

There’s a simple solution: everybody, treat everybody else with a modicum of respect, and stop thinking you’re the center of the universe.

“But out in the real world, it usually pays to not be an insensitive, judgmental prick. You can’t control the obnoxiousness of other people, and you’ll go insane if you try. But you can do your best to make everyone else feel comfortable and welcome. Just because the world is cruel doesn’t mean you have to be. You,…