What’s the most disgusting thing that’s been normalized?

[pgn23]

Lack of jobs with a livable wage.
The homelessness epidemic.
American Healthcare.
Lying in public discourse.

Personal opinion: Hatred, cheating, ghosting are all good options. It seems like dehumanization of one another. We don’t care about anyone but ourselves anymore. Kinda hate the internet, social media, and the overall loss of personal connections sometimes.

 

[Ammi]

…it often feels as though society is regressing and forms of bigotry are becoming ‘acceptable’, while inclusivity/considering marginalised groups etc is perceived as WOKE culture and very much criticised…

 

[cowcatcher]

Scams of all types are so prevalent it seems normalized. There seems to be no place to find honesty.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

The most heinous crimes, they're in the news everyday and I think avid newsreaders are getting desensitised to it as a natural self-preservation mechanism.

 

[cybercupid]

Celebrities can do horrible things even criminal but yet bad publicity is still good publicity! Even has landed them deals. They're still idolized, and humanized where we should forgive people who make mistakes. Whereas if a regular individual committed the same heinous acts, their lives would be over with no escape and no coming back from it.

 

[Uncrowned]

I will actually take a different route here and say these social challenges. @phoenixgordon has a solid list of issues and those are far too normalized, but I would say the new social media challenges. Peer pressure and hazing and the like have always been an issue, but now that they are not only on a global scale, but they are part of the normal social media groups kids (and even adults) are part of, the problem is getting way out of control, and we are already referring to the deaths as "TikTok challenges gone wrong". I see the current challenge is bomb threats to schools, how long until that evolves to something worse while also desensitizing school and law enforcement to bombs in schools.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

Celebrities can do horrible things even criminal but yet bad publicity is still good publicity! Even has landed them deals. They're still idolized, and humanized where we should forgive people who make mistakes. Whereas if a regular individual committed the same heinous acts, their lives would be over with no escape and no coming back from it.

It’s true you know. Just recently Russell Brand was arrested and during a performance, it was clear his biggest fans didn’t even believe he was a sexual offender.

And yeah indeed great performance kinda dusts under the carpet the bad past.

I forgive everyone but still believe everyone should be held equally accountable for wrongdoings and held to the same standards as the rest of society, high-profile or not.

 

[PGen98]

Hatred of any kind. It's so normalized, so easy to look out and see someone hating someone for any or no reason, and it needs to stop. Dislike, disagree, sure, but hatred to the point of verbal, emotional or physical abuse is so normalized down it's scary. Needs to be stopped

 

[Ammi]

Hatred of any kind. It's so normalized, so easy to look out and see someone hating someone for any or no reason, and it needs to stop. Dislike, disagree, sure, but hatred to the point of verbal, emotional or physical abuse is so normalized down it's scary. Needs to be stopped

…I don’t know how and when hatred/bigotry etc became an entitled opinion as opposed to what it actually is…it’s sad how some societies are regressing and tolerance is becoming a negatively perceived trait…

 

[PGen98]

…I don’t know how and when hatred/bigotry etc became an entitled opinion as opposed to what it actually is…it’s sad how some societies are regressing and tolerance is becoming a negatively perceived trait…

Agreed, completely. Acceptance and even plain tolerance should be a welcome thing, not considered "woke" because others prefer to hate.

 

[Crys]

…it often feels as though society is regressing and forms of bigotry are becoming ‘acceptable’, while inclusivity/considering marginalised groups etc is perceived as WOKE culture and very much criticised…

This.