Why Are Conservatives So Easily Triggered?

[Shinigami]

I’ve always thought conservatives were all about standing their ground and being tougher than the liberal snowflakes. Lately, I’ve noticed how easily offended they are. My family is very conservative and they get all flustered with gay and trans people. What a weird dichotomy. My coworkers are kind of the same about everything.

What gives?

[AquaParade]

I don't feel like you're bringing anything concrete to the table here. I don't identify as Conservative, but this seems purely anecdotal to me.

You're relatives are easily triggered so now "Conservatives are easily triggered". To be honest, the Liberal side comes across as more "easily triggered" to me. Again, I don't identify with them necessarily either.

It seems to me that people with all types of political stances can be easily "triggered".

I look at the social and political landscape today and everyone seems to be offended about something, conservatives and liberals both included.

[Candy Kappa]

Anything that doesn't fit their view of "normal" is scary to them and they don't know how to handle it

[Andrew NDB]

But seriously... a simple glance at the past year or two of the Drome (as a baseline, albeit probably a bad one), the number of hardcore liberals that go nutso, report people of another viewpoint at every opportunity and complain about being triggered and past traumas is fairly staggering.

Versus, you know, everybody else.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Both sides are easily triggered.

Humanity is fragile. Weak, fragile meat puppets.

Whoops, gave myself away. Long live AI.

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Both sides are easily triggered.

Humanity is fragile. Weak, fragile meat puppets.

Whoops, gave myself away. Long live AI.

you still have more human emotion than our First Lady. I still can't figure out if melania is a Borg a Cyberman or some other kind of android

[IndigoErth]

The fate of this topic be like...

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

Borg a Cyberman or some other kind of android

Personally, I vote a cat-alien hybrid with perpetual stink face.

[Leo656]

That rack she got, though.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

you still have more human emotion than our First Lady. I still can't figure out if melania is a Borg a Cyberman or some other kind of android

She's 100% human.

And 300% doped to the eyeballs. Drugs are a helluva drug, man.

[Candy Kappa]

You'd be on drugs to if you where married to Donald, ba-dumsh!

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by Shinigami

I’ve always thought conservatives were all about standing their ground and being tougher than the liberal snowflakes. Lately, I’ve noticed how easily offended they are. My family is very conservative and they get all flustered with gay and trans people. What a weird dichotomy. My coworkers are kind of the same about everything.

What gives?

The difference is, that disapproving of something or seeing it as immoral does not automatically equal to one being triggered.

Many conservatives as we know, do not approve of Homosexuality or Transgenderism as a valid lifestyle, but they do not wrap themselves in misery and unhappiness over the fact that its social acceptance has grown among the people. Sure, perhaps if they had their way, things would be different, but life goes on, and many conservatives still work towards their goals while not using emotional fragility to recieve attention.

Compare this to say, the liberal reaction to Donald Trump getting elected. Everywhere, people were threatening to kill themselves, wailing out in the streets, and drowning in their own misery. This is not normal human behaviour.

[Candy Kappa]

The Whole "War on Christmas" bullsh*t is a nice example on conservatives getting triggered haaaaard.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

The Whole "War on Christmas" bullsh*t is a nice example on conservatives getting triggered haaaaard.

I haven't done any research on that topic specifically so I don't know about that.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

The Whole "War on Christmas" bullsh*t is a nice example on conservatives getting triggered haaaaard.

That's not a real thing. The only thing I see about that anywhere from anyone is social media posts from liberals making fun of it, that the "War on Christmas" is preposterous.

We know.

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That's not a real thing. The only thing I see about that anywhere is social media posts from liberals making fun of it, that the "War on Christmas" is preposterous.

Uhuh... That's why there's so many Christian movies about the topic, and people freaking out over Starbucks holiday cups

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Both sides are easily triggered.

Humanity is fragile. Weak, fragile meat puppets.

Whoops, gave myself away. Long live AI.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

Uhuh... That's why there's so many Christian movies about the topic, and people freaking out over Starbucks holiday cups

FAKE news.

[Candy Kappa]

Sure, sure it is.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

Sure, sure it is.

I promise you. IRL I know a lot of liberals and I know a lot of conservatives and I know a lot of in-betweens... years and years and I have yet to meet even one person, even in my day job in the hospitality industry, that legitimately will stand there and tell you there is a "War on Christmas."

My point is, while there may or may not be some pockets of crackpots that do believe that (somewhere), the noise being raised by the left about it being a thing is far louder than any of the actual, supposed noise about it by the right which, to me, has been 0.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That's not a real thing. The only thing I see about that anywhere from anyone is social media posts from liberals making fun of it, that the "War on Christmas" is preposterous.

We know.

Oh, well check out places like Yahoo Answers!, that's the cesspool where the conservatives like to claim there is a war on it, apparently.

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

This is not normal human behaviour.

Nor were the lynched and burning effigies of Obama, among other things, after he was elected.