Sorry if it comes as blunt but I find no better way of saying it, you just don't understand the culture of the site, which is meant to filter people like you.
They are just words on a screen from an anonymous person somewhere. Easily thrown, easily dismissed. It makes no sense to be offended because some guy I don't know and who doesn't know me calls me something.
It also never was a normal or common thing and the administration of the site never set themselves to let it happen in any manner afaik. To a large degree it was a product of a different time on the internet.
It seems on the surface that you are all there as equals bashing one another but that's not exactly true, there's a hierarchy you find out the moment you say something actually cutting about white guys and you experience the fury of a 1000 sons.
- Haha look at all those Gen Z snowflakes getting offended at words.
- Okay sure, but the ability to not get offended is related to whether or not you're a target of their bullshit or not; 4chan trolls get extremely offended and unjerk the moment you turn the lens toward them. By 4chan's own standards it's actually pretty reasonable to be offended by their antics.
- But have you considered plugging your ears and not reading it?
So we've gone from 4chan isn't offensive it's just words to yes it is offensive and you shouldn't read it if they say things that target you which was my original point.
tl;dr if you're not offended by 4chan they're not actually saying anything offensive about you even though it might appear so superficially; 4chan just has a different list of things you can't say.
You realise you've been arguing with multiple people expressing multiple opinions, right? You appear to be prone to binary thinking, so it might not be clear to you that your opponents don't form a single monolith.
> tl;dr if you're not offended by 4chan they're not actually saying anything offensive about you even though it might appear so superficially; 4chan just has a different list of things you can't say.
I'm not offended by the things 4chan users say because I don't visit 4chan. You should try it yourself. Getting so upset by words you disagree with on one forum that you feel the need to froth at the mouth about it on another forum doesn't seem healthy.
I think you assume a tone that I absolutely do not have. I couldn't care less about 4chan drama and I don't go there anymore for the reasons you listed. I'm talking about my own experience and trying to make my case for the, apparently controversial, idea that words can and do affect people and that total emotional detachment is the exception rather than the rule. And of course that's the case, 4chan's whole thing is using offensive language to select specifically for the subset of people who can tolerate it.