My wife posted a photo in a text message among my family of my daughter's newborn baby yawning. I thought it made him look like a Chinese baby, and said that as a comment. I then got "quit being racist" comments back from two of my daughters, so I searched on Google for a photo of a Chinese baby yawning, and it looked just like the grandbaby :) One daughter then said it was weird for me to be searching for a photo of a Chinese baby yawning, so I told her I did it to show that the baby LOOKS LIKE A CHINESE BABY YAWNING! Anybody else love their children, but don't really like them? :) On a more serious note, does anyone else sense that this generation under 40 has been programmed to be offended by everything that deviates from some narrow range of supposedly acceptable behavior, comments, etc. (but they have no problem with ridiculous tattoos and piercings)
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I grew up in the 80s and I loved the comics in the newspaper. B.C. was one of my favorites. Something they used to do often is when they saw something new or unusual they would turn their heads to the side and yell out the thing they just realized. There was no one there to hear it. It was absurd and that's what made it funny. They were shouting into the void.
I don't think the young folks of our world today are any more or any less offended by things that we were when we were young. I just think that we got over it real quick while they relish letting it linger. Then they post on social media hoping somebody will validate them being offended and them saying and doing the right thing while, in reality, they are just turning their head to the side and shouting into the void.
It's laughable and we, as the responsible adults, need to laugh at them.
We took a 30 year break from being offensive. I'm thinking we need to be more offensive. It's for their own good.
But I can't see how making a comment that a baby looks like a different race from what it really is, due to the way the baby looks in a particular photo, can be offensive to them. It's like anything that slightly veers from their world view is offensive. They truly are lemmings led by MSM.