I hear more people complain about outrage than actual outrage. It's especially hilarious when I go to sensitivity training and a bunch of privileged co-workers complain about being afraid to have fun.
Stopping inappropriate behavior is not outrage.
That being said, my point is that you are not helping anything regardless of the validity of the original complaints. You display flippant indignation by finding this "hilarious". Would it not help educate your co-workers to treat them reasonably instead of sarcastically confrontational? Has that approach ever yielded results?
That's one of the main things about outrage culture. Outrage will never convince anyone that they're wrong, it will only make them double down on their original ideas.
- Being told the term "you guys" is a micro-aggression that disenfranchises marginalized peoples.
- Being scolded for using the term "man hours."
- Being around people who think that a red hand at a crosswalk is emblematic of systemic racism.
- Working with people who look down at spending Thanksgiving with family, and instead rant about how you're celebrating the murder of the native peoples.
... and any other similar non-issue that psychos left and right today are touting as the biggest issues facing people today.
"Hey, we should refer to our db nodes as the primary and secondaries, cause master & slave has some historical baggage"
"Yeah, K, not really a big deal"
Not
"OMG YOU CALLED THE DB NODE SLAVE YOU'RE RACIST ARRHRHRGRGRGGRGR"
That doesn't mean Westboro Babtist Church is not a problem. It just means the majority is sane.