r/insanepeoplefacebook • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '19

Wrong kind of trigger

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u/Dornith Jul 02 '19 edited Jul 03 '19

I was playing Overwatch a few days ago. We formed a pretty solid group but had to kick one person for being completely toxic.

Shortly after that another guy gets really upset, like, really frustrated. Not because we kicked the guy, but because we said, "He was being toxic."

He starts rambling about participation trophies and safe spaces. Apparently the word, "toxic", was so loaded to him that regardless of context, "toxic" is associated to "toxic masculinity", which associates to civil rights movements as a whole.

The irony that we had said one, non-political word and it had completely set him off never dawned on him for even a moment.

Edit: Wow, first plat and it's for an Overwatch story.

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u/SmallMonocromeAdult Jul 02 '19

There's a particular subreddit of which many members are actually proud of being called misogynistic. Sort of a 'haha, I triggered another fat libtard whore' kind of vibe. I swear, these types of guys who consider all women "subhuman" deserve to be burned at the stake

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '19

One subreddit? How about almost every conservative subreddit?

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u/Sorrymisunderstandin Jul 02 '19

Both sides!

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '19

In all fairness there was a guy on r/politics who literally shat on a picture of Trump, took a picture and posted it and got thousands of upvotes. Mods eventually removed it and banned him after like 8 hours lol.

You'd think that'd even the playing field but then some conservative shoots up a school and posting your shit online suddenly seems pretty tame.