{"id":282002,"date":"2018-10-04T18:41:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T18:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/04\/cursedtruth-i-miss-the-good-old-days-where-you\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T18:41:45","slug":"cursedtruth-i-miss-the-good-old-days-where-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/04\/cursedtruth-i-miss-the-good-old-days-where-you\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cursedtruth.tumblr.com\/post\/178685172005\/i-miss-the-good-old-days-where-you-could-state\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">cursedtruth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI miss the good old days, where you could state an opinion without someone getting offended,\u201d says the older relative\u2019s shared meme, with a random picture of Donald Duck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust be polite and don\u2019t offend people,\u201d I respond, because it\u2019s an easy, free solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the point,\u201d replies the relative, even though it isn\u2019t at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot really,\u201d I counter, genuinely confused. \u201cThis doesn\u2019t promote being polite, it mourns the days before \u2018PC culture.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone else swoops in, a stranger to me but a friend or relation to the relative. \u201cIt is absolutely saying you should be polite,\u201d she objects. \u201cBut that people these days just have a thinner skin! It isn\u2019t at all suggesting what you say it does!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy,\u201d I ask, \u201cdo they need thick skin, if you aren\u2019t saying something offensive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outrage! The insult! That I would suggest that these people missing the days \u201cwhen they could state an opinion without someone taking offense\u201d in fact miss being able to unapologetically say rude things without consequences\u2026is so ~offensive~! They must express how offended they are at my suggestion of being polite and considerate! They must let me know how offensive it is to suggest they hadn\u2019t been! Don\u2019t I know people these days just have thin skin? So easily offended! It isn\u2019t \/their\/ fault! The skin! It\u2019s so thin! So thin that polite words tear bleeding wounds, and how can you navigate a world like that?<\/p>\n<p>And I am confused, still, because I have encountered many humans, and they do not all bleed so easily. You just try to be polite, to refrain from speaking from a place of ignorance, and apologize if you misstep. But I have noticed a pattern\u2026 That those who complain loudest about others being easily offended, have themselves skin like onion paper.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cursedtruth: \u201cI miss the good old days, where you could state an opinion without someone getting offended,\u201d says the older relative\u2019s shared meme, with a random picture of Donald Duck. \u201cJust be polite and don\u2019t offend people,\u201d I respond, because it\u2019s an easy, free solution. \u201cThat\u2019s the point,\u201d replies the relative, even though it isn\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/04\/cursedtruth-i-miss-the-good-old-days-where-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}