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    Cause it’s rude. Like correcting grammar in a conversation. Both would be equally rude.

    Nobody wants to be told that what they’ve learned and have been taught to them their whole life is now an offense. Just like nobody wants to be misgendered on purpose.

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        8 days ago

        Being told you’re an idiot and everything you’ve learned is wrong in front of others is “yikes”

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            “The earth is flat”. “Ok, cool. Didn’t mean anything by it.”

            A bit hyperbolic, but that is how i imagine it sounds to older people. Perspective goes both ways.

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                But the post talks about a party, where the person feeling that they are correct feel justified in talking down to someone else in front of everybody. Good that we agree that publically lecturing is rude.

                Eventually all of us will be labeled as intolerant, or as having being intolerant according to the changing sensibilities. I can just say that i try to not be rude to individuals or their intellect, but i also don’t really care if people are generally offended by ‘things’. Unless they went out of their way to diminish another person, and what that entails differs depending on the origin of ‘the offender’.