“There isn’t an act or gesture too petty, no subject too trivial that escapes the righteously indignant eye of the thoughtcrime police.”
And I think that Trump poking his eye in that finger is his most important contribution.
How to be offended.
Use your logic in niggardly proportions.
Not only make you cease and desist, they’ll threaten or destroy your life. Darren Wilson, George Zimmerman.
When there is no absolute moral standard and morality degrades to how you feel, committing evil is easy to defend if it feels good and the rights of others are deemed negotiable, if you don’t like it.
When acceptable and unacceptable depend on how others feel about it, the most emotional person in the room, even if irrational, sets the standard for the group.
Now we have liberals not only giving the moral weight to the most emotional but letting the one who throws the biggest tantrum or holds the most demographic points (also a form of moral weight) determine what is acceptable to say and do. The irrational idiot now gets to decide what everyone else can say, opinions they can discuss even in like minded groups, the rights they can exercise.
And by giving moral weight to the emotion, the line between harmful words and harmful actions disappears. You get the Islamic interpretation that criticism of the faith, even jokes about it, are considered as unacceptable as property damage of a mosque or physical assault on a believer.
You see this with liberals who think questioning a woman who cries rape is as bad as actual rape, challenging their views on homosexuality is akin to assault, etc.
The liberal-secular is adopting the “you offended me, I can hurt you / kill you” view of Muslims, while stripping us of our rights of speech and association in the names of the feelings of the politically privileged minorities.
It is morality set by the tantrum toddler, and fascism in the name of protecting hurt feelings.