Being Permanently Irritated

For John, BLUF:  Does everything trigger us now.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Mean Words and Fake Jokes

This is from the blog The Declination and the Blogger Dystopic, 19 September 2017.

Here is the lede plus one:

The recent kerfuffle over Clay Travis and his trademark phrase “I like the First Amendment and… boobs” has flooded social media these last few days.  And it brings up a fascinating amount of cognitive dissonance.  Keith Reed, who immediately white-knighted on behalf of poor, offended Brooke Baldwin, posted frequently on the subject of boobs, ass, and attractive women on his public social media pages.  Brooke herself frequently wears things that accentuate her breasts and has ‘suffered’ references to boobs many times before.  The outrage over the mere mention of boobs is all fake.

The thing of it is, today people often take things out of context deliberately in order to feel the rush of being offended; to get attention and sympathy from others.  Being offended supplies a person with increased social status.  Being offended makes them powerful for a moment.  So any opportunity that presents itself, even if deliberately taken out of context or obviously exaggerated, is quickly embraced.  Brooke and Keith both saw golden opportunities to be offended by Clay Travis mentioning boobs.

This seems to be a modern version of a Kulturkampf.

Wikipedia bios:

• Clay Travis
• Keith Reed
• Brooke Baldwin

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff