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Is it difficult being offended by everything?

The cancel culture is in full swing even with the rona in full swing. I just feel like being offended by everything would just be a very angry, very difficult way to go through life. A recent example is the cancel folks coming after Ellen for, what was actually kind of a funny joke about quarantine being like prison. I mean.. if Ellen has a cancel target on her back, is there just no joy left? 

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  • 1 year ago

    Who cares. Now that every tom dick and harry has internet access and an online voice, it's all down hill from here. I'm just going to adapt to it, do my own thing and enjoy the show. Let them cancel whoever they want.

    A small part of me likes watching the world fall to sh*t, even though its having an effect on me.

  • martin
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    Being offended is a very uncomfortable feeling, usually requiring a person to settle down and eventually see things from that other person's point of view.

  • 1 year ago

    Welcome to the new generation what I like to call Generation Snowflake.  As our youth grow older we become more and more weak and offended by everything.  It is a trend that is being set as normal practice by people who became adults between 2010 and now.  It is a product of belligerent entitlement and parents not raising their kids to take accountability.  However, if Ellen is on the chopping block then I have no issue with that.  Ellen is a fraud and it is an open secret as to what an awful person she truly is. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    Much like the vegetarian PETA folk, people don't want anyone to enjoy something they don't like, people only want other people to follow their lead and belief. Humor is subjective. Some people like fart jokes. I can't stand Howard Stern, but I simply don't listen to him. If you like him, fine. Same thing about Ellen. People should just turn off the TV and let those who like her enjoy the show. It's a big enough world that we should all be able to live our lives the way we individually want to live them.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    She's been proven many times to lack empathy over the years. I wouldn't know anything about prison, but I highly doubt its anything like a quarantine. She's been pushing the boundaries of what is an admittedly soft society these days. People are afraid of tough love, or dark humor, but there's always a line, and that line is getting thinner and thinner as time goes on. It depends on how people deal with life. Some people laugh in its face, others stick their heads in the ground to escape it. She would probably go off air completely by choice herself if she'd lost somebody close to her in this pandemic. Nothing wrong with having a humor to help you deal with things, but you need to keep your empathy at the same time. People disregard the everyday hell children in other countries go through, born into war, and fighting, and starvation, while the world can't seem to escape things like 911 for example.... It's all subjective, and people don't truly care until death comes for them.

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