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kleinbl00  ·  2522 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Old Handsign Meaning "OK" Triggers Girl Who Once Saw a Pepe Meme Doing It

    This is usually an inoffensive process.

[citation needed]

    We should aspire to be harder to offend.

So that those who excel at offensiveness must struggle harder?

    If people don't respond to it, it dies.

Right. If I don't tell my neighbor kid to stop throwing rocks at my windows, eventually he'll get bored, right?

It is the function of society to police its own boundaries, not to assume that no one will be affected if the worst among us are allowed to run rampant.

Freedom of speech is allowing the bottom-dwellers of 4chan to call each other whatever names they want. It's also allowing everyone else to tell them that it's decidedly not okay.

It's not okay.