A: *makes suggestion*
B: I think that’s a bad idea.
A: what are you triggered bro?? did I trigger you?? why so sensitive???
when exactly did the “triggered” meme escape the containment field and become a standard part of political discourse, even for people who are notionally in favour of content warnings / safe spaces, and used as a bludgeon against criticism that isn’t even personal.
It’s not like “triggered” is even an argument against something. It’s just a way to dismiss something without even actually discussing it.
in this case we’ve already gone one step beyond to dismissing objections on the basis that the person objecting clearly has no valid grounds and is simply using triggered as a weapon, even when they’re not claiming to be triggered.
it’s the “chicken, McFly??” for year of our lord 2k16
triggered, hon? drowning in your white cismale tears lmao, your life is so hard isn’t it boo hoo hoo go fuck yourself :)) lmao
[this is ironic]
there is actually an unspoken implication that only certain classes of people can suffer from mental disorders like PTSD, so a white cis male claiming to be legitimately triggered by a particular situation would indeed be subject to ridicule.
it’s the equivalent of that “scared of feminism? well why don’t you just man-up and stop being a whiny little bitch” discourse.
Aye.
I think that’s part of why it escaped containment. “Man up” was already a meme in use, so some people thought they could do it back with a different spear, but then it turned out that using various “lol wussy” spears can be turned back on you yet again. That and when “triggers” expanded in scope, Conservatives assumed it was secretly a method to control the discourse.