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666Maggotz Because people are people, and if they see your text as an atack on their believes, they get "triggered" and fall into a defensive stance.
A good number of people also think that they are extremely good at understanding what you have said from the moment they read it. They don't look at things that might be ambiguous, they don't ask questions like: "what do you mean by that" or "how do you think that works" or "I don't understand you please elaborate". They just react. And to be honest, I'm pretty sure you do that too sometimes? I'm not aware that I'm doing it, but after rereading some of my reactions and reflecting on them, I plea guilty for being triggered at times. Because I'm a human being, and even tough I try to do my best to better myself, certain things are really build in automatic respondses. Trying to become aware of these things (because they are ussually really unconcious) is hard, trying to rid yourself from them is really really hard.
But you are right about the hypocrisy part. People tend to forget that they are "human beings", and there is a tendency to perceive your own attitudes as being "the norm" and perceiving them as "justifiable and good". If you wouldn't do that, you would constantly be in conflict with yourself, and you would probably not react at all, because you think you are constantly giving bad remarks which will inhibit you from engaging in conversation. People that do engange ussually believe they have a point (guilty of that too). But since you perceive yourself as the "norm" and being good, everything that is outside the norm (other people) are not. So it's always the other people that get triggered, it always the other people that are racist, it's always the other people that (fill in what ever you consider to be outside the norm). Because people tend to forget that they are just as human as the other person and prone to the same sorts of mistakes.
