They’re not actually. “Being offended” is just a means of obtaining power over others, and it’s free, so they do it.
It’s a crude parody of real emotion used as leverage against civilized people. It doesn’t work on leftists because they don’t give a rat about other people, but like any sociopath they learn precisely what will cause other people to do their will.
True.
They basically learned how to phrase it to lay a guilt trip on others to manipulate them into capitulating.