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plungesponge · 41-45, M
Honestly I blame litigation. At first people were hard-headed and selfish, so they decided society needed some rules to be fair. That was fine until damn lawyers realized they could extract exorbitant sums of money if they could prove that institutions were not just breaking the rules, but had not created perfectly fair environments. So those institutions, the schools, the universities, the corporations, went overboard making everywhere a safe space. Now it seeped into the culture, and everyone learned that complaining was easier than solving problems themselves. Then social media came along and suddenly the masses didn't even need to litigate, they just had to post some crap or leave a bad review and other people would magnify their unsubstantiated armchair opinions. Meanwhile the banksters had indebted every man and his dog, so nobody could afford to lose a job over bad PR. Cue the rise of the social justice warrior and safe spaces and trigger warnings.