We live in a society where complaining is considered "verbal abuse" or "harassment", but where we have to put up and shut up about everything going on.

The message out of 2020 and 2021, is that the big people know what they're doing and we don't.

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potato3732842 5 hours ago | parent [-]

We live in a society where being the victim of verbal abuse or harassment or various isms and all sorts of other petty things confers legitimacy and power upon one's opinion. There's a subtle difference.

Thankfully it seems to be waning slightly.

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nephihaha 5 hours ago | parent [-]

No, I don't mean that at all. I've had to complain about things before and they accuse you of shouting (when you're not). They almost want people to swear, and rile them up, because that gives them the excuse to do nothing.

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akimbostrawman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>They almost want people to swear

that is sadly exactly how most people operate now. Somebody gives legitimate critique to an issue? simply tone police them and you can claim all they say is [ism] or hate speech and therefore not even worth engaging with.

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potato3732842 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You're reading way too much into my use of the word "opinion". It's just whatever side of whatever the issue is be it customer service ad Burger King or some arcane discussion about compilers.

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nephihaha 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, I'm aware of identity politics, but that is not what I'm talking about. I'm a member of a couple of minorities myself, and it confers little privilege on me with or without the abuse.

	▲	potato3732842 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You're missing the point. Some people are quick to claim that the other person is being unreasonable in a way that's socially agreed upon to be bad as a justification for whatever their thing is, whether that's being a lazy worker at a min-wage job or anything else. And of course sometimes these people don't even wait for unreasonable behavior. They will characterize "hey can you please do your job" that way because it suits them. This is a figment of living in a culture where being right but distasteful in a variety of poorly defined but broadly similar ways effectively makes you wrong. Toward the other end of the spectrum is stuff like "I don't care if he's a card carrying nazi he builds good rockets" and other stuff like that.