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Because it is being used for manipulation, falsely. "Oh, oh, this hurts me! I cannot bear it!"

Recollect Emory University, in 2015, when someone wrote "TRUMP 2016" in chalk on the sidewalk. "Traumatized" protestors shouted "You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!" It's manipulation, pretending to be hurt. These people weren't locked in some kind of perpetual seizure for the four years of the Trump presidency, wailing in continual agony. It was a show.



Can you explain what incentive someone has to "manipulate" us into no longer using the term slave, if not genuine discomfort?


It makes petty people feel they have power over you. It’s not like they are that wrong. We like to reward norm enforcing, but we aren’t sufficiently inoculated against exploitative ones. The end game can be seen in any big religion.


Well, why did the histrionics at the campus occur? Do you feel their discomfort was genuine? Bonus question: if it was genuine, what would you expect the outcome to be for them during the Trump presidency?




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