There’s something intensely unhealthy going on when parents discourage age-appropriate independence. A 13 year old should probably be allowed to go see a film with their friends most of the time. A 16 year old should probably be allowed to drive/ride a bus/bike to a friend’s house most of the time. An 18 year old should probably be allowed to travel overnight with their friends most of the time. A 20+ year old should be allowed to come and go as they please, with some common-sense “Let’s talk this ‘move to Finland’ plan of your over before you follow through on it” exceptions.

Parents should want their children to enjoy going out and doing things on their own and with their friends. They should be delighted that their child wants to have a life of their own. A rich, fulfilling life outside the home and distinct from parents and family is important, and parents should want their child to have that.

SJW Humor is nothing more than a bunch of babies sending the Bee Movie Script and Chungo all the time.

I think the problem comes at least partly from people assuming two things:

- that “racist” is a personal insult upon your honour
- that once you’re called “racist”, that’s it, you’re irrevocably racist and your Soul Is Forever Tarnished

and I’m not going to deny that there are people who do use the term in the aforementioned ways, but most of the time it’s just used to tell you that, yes, you are doing/saying something racist, much like calling someone who’s cutting off fingers a “finger cutter” is just saying that they’re, you know, cutting fingers off (and they should stop)

ideally it’d go like this

“black people have the perfect physique and structure to play uruk-hai”
“you’re being pretty racist right now”
“huh, in hindsight that’s actually pretty racist to say, I apologize and I’ll try to think things through a little better in the future”

but a lot of the time it goes like this

“black people have the perfect physique and structure to play uruk-hai”
“you’re being pretty racist right now”
“WELL I GUESS I’LL JUST GO AND STAB A KNIFE THROUGH MY OWN BRAIN NOW SINCE I’M A FUCKING DIRTY MONSTER! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, SJWS?!?!?! YOU’RE JUST TRYING TO SILENCE DISCUSSION!”

really, it’s a copout attitude that focuses on your own feelings instead of engaging the thing you’re doing/saying. fleeing into that comfortable refuge of indignation where you don’t have to think that maybe it’s shitty for white people to wear native american headdresses on halloween, because you’ve been Offended and Dragged Into The Mud and Stabbed In The Heart by the mean mean marginalized people who are calling racism racism