When people have invested their identities into clichΓ©s, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens β tax livestock β labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people. They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.