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It's not triggering. It's not even "I'm offended" meaning of triggering that college students may use.

You've taken a term that was used by people to indicate a serious gutteral negative reaction and used it to mean something so watered down and vaguely possibly less than positive.

The Eddie Izzard joke of "awesome like a packet of hot dogs" but now it's "triggering like a real estate search site".



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