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When people wax poetic about awful shit that was “harmless” what they are really upset about is that “it was harmful to a group of people it used to be ok to harm and I wish I could harm them again”
I was in a bar i used to hang out in almost 20 years ago. It was kinda weird to see the same people still sitting there. There were two guys on my table that i knew from back then, but even then, not too well. They talked about how these days, they can't say anything anymore, not like in the good old days. They said it over and over, just phrased it differently every time. So i asked: sorry, but what can't you say anymore.
One of them shrugged and said: you know, things that were okay in the good old days?
Like what?
Things.
You want to be racist and homophobic, which by the way you still can, but you don't want to deal with the repercussions.
It used to be okay
FOR YOU!!
The ones who claim their rights and freedoms are being taken away are the ones who are being told "being racist isn't tolerated anymore"
Oh no, it's nothing as introspective as that, it's a much more lazy mindless stance than that, it's just knee-jerk "They took [some thing] away from me!"