Ok, this is opinion, feel free to disagree. And this is not here because it's happened to me; I saw a post elsewhere and rolled my eyes so hard my grandkids felt it.
The world does not, in fact, owe you a "trigger" free existence. If someone says or does something that accidentally triggers some horrific memory in you, they are not a bad person. It is NOT their fault. Deal with your trauma and move on. Unless one of your life goals is to be an asshat, do not attack said person about it and blame them for it.
I have triggers; many of us do. I have a very hard time with any movie in which a parent goes apeshit on their kids and beats them. There's a scene in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhod in which a woman beats the holy crap out of her kids, totally out of her mind. There's screaming, there's fear, and it was difficult for me to watch because it was basically a scene right out of my childhood. But it's nobody's fault that that bugs me except a dead woman, and yelling at someone for showing me the movie would not be a good move.
Do I expect the world to never mention abuse? No. There are billions of folks on this planet who don't even have a clue who I am, much less what my life was like. And that's as it should be.
Yes, someone who accidentally pressed a button can (and maybe even should) apologize for it. But there's no call to attack them over it. Move on, take responsibility for your own reactions, and be a Big Boy/Girl. Or, you know, don't. And if you don't, you should probably not spend a lot of time around me.
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