You Are Not Responsible For How I Feel
Why our modern fashion for playing the victim robs us of agency and leads to poor outcomes
Anyone who uses United Airlines’ in-flight entertainment system and selects either a TV show or a movie will be presented with a message that says, If you think the contents of this entertainment may offend you or offend another passenger, please choose a different option.
Welcome to the wonderful world of hyper-victimhood.
The ludicrous statement on the United Airlines entertainment monitor was no doubt crafted by United’s in-house lawyers in an attempt to reduce the company’s likelihood of being sued by someone who’s been persuaded by Politically Correct babble that they are entitled to go from birth to death without ever once encountering anything that could potentially cause them even the most fractional emotional or intellectual discomfort.
This pernicious doctrine is now also prevalent throughout the US educational system and is increasingly manifesting in the educational systems of European nations that really ought to know better. Students demand “safe spaces” and reject any content that could potentially require them to grapple with the fact that the real world is unlikely to conform to their princess-and-the-pea ideas. Censorship is now…
