hungover wrote:
I don't think people are getting more sensitive, I think we're becoming more aware of how harmful our past behaviour which might've seemed like jokes to us then, actually have been.
I used to hang out with a group of people who made terrorist jokes, I never ever found them funny and they made me incredibly uncomfortable but I was too scared to tell them to stop - Especially because they also made "dark jokes" about themselves. They've since then stopped making those jokes and I remember one of them came up to me at a mutual friend's party, they told me that they'd stopped being "edgelords" and they seemed genuinely proud of their development.
If anyone ever tried calling them racist NOW, I'd disagree with them, but still, acknowledge that their "jokes" back then were racially charged and therefore racist.Change is allowed, change is encouraged, and especially when it's for the better.