I think PTSD has become thrown about so lighlty that it's meaningless. PTSD is a very serious condition that you don't get because somebody told you to "stay in your hood". If your personality and temper don't allow you to control yourself in the face of incredibly minor insults, you should be focused on how to change that.

I'm not saying that for the sake of the person who's trying to upset you, I'm saying it for your sake. Things will happen that will offend you and upset you. Often, they'll be nothing to do with race. If it ruins your day, you're the only one who's really suffering.

As much as I try to be optimistic, there is a 0% chance that we create a world where nobody offends anybody else ever again, which means that in addition to encouraging other people behave more compassionately (which I agree we should do), we absolutely need to make ourselves better at dealing with the ordinary annoyances of life.

There's tragically little attention paid to this second part. So much so, that when a fully grown man claims he was "traumatised" by a nobody half his size telling him to stay in his hood, hardly anybody is asking, "is that even a reasonable reaction?"

As I said, we wouldn't accept this fragility if the races were reorganised in any other order. Just white to black. I absolutely loathe this implication that black people are too weak to deal with a white person one on one. We absolutely are not.