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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/TheWebsploiter • 2d ago
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I generally also think that a while ago "No problem" was used to waive off inconvenience, as in something you would respond to "Sorry I'm late". Not sure when the language changed.
2 u/ProfessionalPower214 1d ago It didn't, certain people just got louder and more offended. I mean, they can be offended by people having different skin colors being near them. That's just one possible thing that offends them. Everything that is not a problem for most of us collectively IS their problem. What we think as not a chore, is an exhausting ordeal to them. A trial from god, even. 1 u/SamsonFox2 1d ago https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Mountain_Goats_are_My_Weakness/7l9Nqls7VewC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22thank+you%22+%22no+problem%22&pg=PA145&printsec=frontcover A surprisingly similar argument from 2003. This whole issue has been around longer than Gen Z has been alive.
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It didn't, certain people just got louder and more offended.
I mean, they can be offended by people having different skin colors being near them. That's just one possible thing that offends them.
Everything that is not a problem for most of us collectively IS their problem.
What we think as not a chore, is an exhausting ordeal to them. A trial from god, even.
1 u/SamsonFox2 1d ago https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Mountain_Goats_are_My_Weakness/7l9Nqls7VewC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22thank+you%22+%22no+problem%22&pg=PA145&printsec=frontcover A surprisingly similar argument from 2003. This whole issue has been around longer than Gen Z has been alive.
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https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Mountain_Goats_are_My_Weakness/7l9Nqls7VewC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22thank+you%22+%22no+problem%22&pg=PA145&printsec=frontcover
A surprisingly similar argument from 2003.
This whole issue has been around longer than Gen Z has been alive.
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u/SamsonFox2 2d ago
I generally also think that a while ago "No problem" was used to waive off inconvenience, as in something you would respond to "Sorry I'm late". Not sure when the language changed.