Have Americans Become Too Sensitive?

@loofy

Which is whatever, but we're not European. I agree with you though. I'm fine with abstaining from war if possible, that's not my issue. Like you say though, we're trying to spare everyone's feelings. If a choice came down to sparing someone's life versus sparing their feelings, I bet there's plenty who would choose the latter. And yupp, even in the Middle East we're so fucking concerned about hurting people's feelings but have no reservations about blowing up fucking villages on the daily. Remember that guy who wanted to burn a bunch of Qu'rans and everybody in the world got their panties in a wad? Or how everybody got upset about those soldiers peeing on the corpses of the guys they just killed? It was perfectly fine that they killed them, but pissing on them was just over the top, apparently. Americans overseas are now being instructed to avoid criticizing pedophilia, or advocating women's rights. The US government can now make no links between Islam and terrorism (I'm not talking about generalizing. Even admitting the 9/11 hijackers or the 7/7 bombers were Muslim is too edgy for people). Or this whole "immigration reform" everybody is now demanding, especially down here in California. It has nothing to do with "equality." The illegals want it for obvious reasons and then all these do-gooder dipshit PC morons jump on that wagon and now people are pushing for illegals to be allowed drivers licenses and even law licenses. No country who puts its citizens first would have this shit. I had a comment exchange with a French dude on a story about allowing illegal immigrants to attend American universities (possibly with financial aid, I can't remember) and he started spouting shit in defense of these undocumented immigrants, as if that's how shit works in Europe. View the US requirements for citizenship and you'll find they're very fair compared to many other countries. And don't get me started on "racism." Anything you say nowadays is racist. Believe me when I tell you if I'm being racist, it'll be obvious. When Bush was in office I thought he was a piece of shit. I still do. Now Obama is in office, I think he's a piece of shit. But when I complained about Bush, people agreed. Now if I complain about the new guy, I'm racist. And now even if you say "soccer" it can be perceived as racist. I shit you not, in high school PE I said "soccer" for whatever reason and these two 500 lb whales started "educating" me in broken English that I was being racist because of the local connotation of Mexicans and soccer (true, some even call it "beaner ball" <---an actual racist remark). Go anywhere in California and use the word "Mexican" in a sentence even as in: Hey, are you Mexican? People get fucking leery when that word is brought up for some reason. It goes on to other races too, my favorite being that of blacks in America. The correct term for blacks for some reason in America is "African American." That's fine, if you're actually African American. The term means that a.) you're of African descent and b.) you're of American nationality (or at least citizenship). Calling every black an African American disregards the fact that black people come from other places than Africa (as well as there being some whites there too) and that they don't have to live in America. A Jamaican brought up in the UK would be called an African American because of political correctness. Asians aren't excluded either. In high school, we had a rally that was China-themed for the Chinese New Year. Nothing wrong with that, but everybody threw a fucking fit because it was just too damn racist for them to handle. None of the Asians even cared. Just recently there was an Asian-themed frat party at Duke, and a Mexican-themed one on a different campus some time before. Everybody lost their fucking shit. No one could look at it and not be offended for some reason.

Most of this didn't have to do with loofy's post, I'm just weird.

And people, I'm an American. I'm not attacking America. I just loathe all this political correctness. It's not even indigenous here. For reasons I can't understand, everybody just decided to copy other countries.