“Suck it up, buttercup”: the sad truth about being offended

I’ve seen a lot of conversations over the past few years about how people who are ‘easily offended’ should just ‘suck it up’ or ‘get over it’. Labels like ‘snowflake’, ‘thin-skinned’ and ‘overly sensitive’ get bandied about.

In essence, those people who want to share rude, insensitive and offensive material believe that anyone who finds it offensive is just an…