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Again, my question was, how do you expect to start a fruitful conversation with someone if your opening salvo is to try to offend them. Do you expect you will change anyone's mind? It does not matter if you are right if you can not illuminate the people around you.


I'm gonna steelman here and say that "jaw dropping" and similar language describing the reaction of the original poster was hyperbole in the same realm as "I shit my pants at [jumpscare]"


>Again, my question was, how do you expect to start a fruitful conversation with someone

That's just it though, there _isn't_ a fruitful conversation to be had with someone suggesting that a "jaw dropping" reaction to a children's cartoon is normal.


You used the words "snowflake" to describe someone who was trying to start a conversation, and I assume you would ascribe it to me as well (there are old Mickey Mouse cartoons I would call "jaw dropping" and I would probably have used similar hyperbole to describe racist stereotypes in more recent media or recently changed names of sports clubs). Yet you are the only one acting triggered and refusing to even talk through what they found so silly or offensive in other people's behavior.


>You used the words "snowflake" to describe someone who was trying to start a conversation

I'm not the one you're talking about.

>Yet you are the only one acting triggered and refusing to even talk through what they found so silly or offensive in other people's behavior.

If you can't even be bothered to reply to the right person, I don't see how we can have a productive conversation.


My bad for the mixup! The rest still stands though, seems weird to start a conversation with an insult.


Sure, but I didn’t start our conversation with an insult so…?




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