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It gets brought into the limelight occasionally, and often gets criticism from prominent white men. It's an interesting one though. Should you be able to stand in the city and, for example, encourage people to stab aboriginal Australians?
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Yes, and if it just so happens that a maniac listened and then did kill somebody, he was probably a psycho already and would've done it either way.
I think people should be allowed to say whatever they want, unless it's an actual VIABLE death threat, then they should be questioned. If the identity of the person who's making the threat is known, however, it's very unlikely that it is a genuine threat and arresting them is a waste of time and money.
People can be as bigoted as they like, and if their ideas really are that bad then people won't listen to them. Idiots will listen, but censoring ideas you don't like is a very muddy and slippery slope. Where do you draw the line? What's okay and what isn't? The answer is everything is okay because discussion is important. About anything.
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We live in a litigious society, so I think personal offense is something you can capitalize on to punish the offender if you have the money. I think the government can and does try to keep a lid on large-scale hatespeech and organized, aimless discontent but not so much that people are muzzled from saying whatever dumb shit they believe at all.
I don't think 'being offended' is a justifiable excuse for publicly retaliating against someone unless there was an implication of danger or threat in what was said, but that's how the law works anyway. No death threats.
Now, I'm not sure what to say about your assessment of those certain typically offended people as Autistic or on the spectrum because being a loser on the internet who complains about everything is not something exclusive to or symptomatic of autism. I also see the same mentality exhibited by the desperately 'anti PC' through ceaseless crocodile tears and unironic, pointless hatred.
I think it's more about the era we live in giving people an avenue to be malcontent and miserable on some level, about something, if they choose to. everyone can find a soapbox to stand on, everyone has at some point or another championed (or argued against) a slacktivist cause cause simply to feel relevant and culturally valuable, and everyone has to at some point face the fact that they are fucking alone and it sucks and they're going to die.
I think people who get offended the way you describe to the point of excess just want to project the idea that they cherish their world more than you cherish yours so they can feel better about being pretty powerless against what's actually wrong with the world.
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I think it's more that today, the more oppressed and victimised you are, the more power you hold. So now it's all about trying to become as oppressed as possible, racking up Patriarchy Points on your Tumblr card so that people hold your opinions higher than say that of a straight white man's.