Rocsteady wrote:Moggy wrote:Rocsteady wrote:I think this is a major problem for liberals in that all comment begins and ends in outrage.
As opposed to those calm folks on the right who never get annoyed or outraged over anything....
This is partly my point though, 'the right' obviously have a equal - or greater, probably much greater - amount of bellends who get offended by everything. The issue is they also hold the means of power and political office in the U.K. And USA and generally control the vast majority of media output too. They shape most conversation, while we (the royal 'we') get offended by David Moyes joking about slapping a female acquaintance.
My point is slightly different. Liberals are being constantly accused of being "snowflakes" or being "too easily offended" etc, but it is not a liberal phenomenon, it's a human one. People see something they don't like and they have a good old fashioned bloody whinge about it. Left wingers whinge about sexism/racist (whether real or imagined) and right wingers whinge about foreigners/Easter eggs.
People are entitled to be offended and speak out against things they disagree with, and people are of course entitled to criticise that criticism. And the world goes round and round.
I don't think the issue with David Moyes was that he threatened to slap a female btw. The issue was that he said "if you weren't a woman! lmao girls can't be slapped!!". In a sport like football where women are routinely belittled and excluded, it was a perfect example to use. Personally I couldn't give a gooseberry fool about Moyes, but I can see why people commented on it.