> You're right, but in this case, it struck terror in the hearts of many "little ones."

Yeah. As I said, sometimes people feel really afraid that people are attempting to mock them or pick fun or are being disrespectful or malevolent. That is an understandable response in light of past hurts.

But present situations are (most often) different in the sense that the majority of people in the world aren't *intending* to mock or pick fun or be disrespectful or malevolent.

That doesn't do anything to undo the past hurts...
It can be really hard to seperate our the past from the present and to understand when the *intensity* of the response is due to the past or the present...