idiopathicsmile:

murahin:

it occasionally occurs to me that pretty much all sj issues can be summed up as “don’t hurt people” with a sidenote of “you can hurt people on accident, but they’re still hurt so apologize and learn from it”

basically at the core of it, it’s similar to “if you bump into a stranger, apologize and try not to do it again”. And people not only debate it, but some go out of their way to bump into strangers and scream “Awww are you hurt?! are you crying!! did I upset you!!” as a weird hobby

also true of like 90% of what gets called “political correctness”

there is a difference between language that sugarcoats and language that is specifically designed to not hurt groups of people who are targeted all the time

knowingly using words that hurt them isn’t edgy, it’s mean