Getting Offended

[GasX]

A wise man once said, "If you don't occasionally get offended, you are not living in a free society."

Well, we are now living in a society where people have become hypersensitive to everything and actually get offended at minor things. Not only that, but the indignation assumed by someone having the nerve to make the offending statement has gone off the deepend.

Example - The finance minister (not exact title) of the state of California recently warned of the coming tsunami like budget crisis. This statement was idiotic and innapropriate, but the repurcussions are going to heard around the world and someone will ask this guy to retire... :roll:

Freedom of expression is an important fundamental right and we as a society are crushing it under the jackboot of political correctness.

I would like to challenege all of you to just take a step back the next time you get offended and to think about whether or not getting offended is any of the following:
1. a useful feeling in any way
2. a sign of your own weakness as a person
3. appropriate in the context the person was talking in
4. an opportunity to educate the person
5 an opening to razz the hell out of him for being a jackass.

Remember kids, just because you are offended, doesn't mean that you are entitled to anything - especially not the right to whine like a little bitch.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

#5 plz

5 an opening to razz the hell out of him for being a jackass

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Remember kids, just because you are offended, doesn't mean that you are entitled to anything - especially not the right to whine like a little bitch.

We're not? What's all this free speech crap then?

 

[40Hands]

Free speech is a myth.

 

[MacBaine]

Remember kids, just because you are offended, doesn't mean that you are entitled to anything - especially not the right to whine like a little bitch.

They have the right to whine all they want. The problem is when people give in to their whining.

 

[biostud]

yay, for not living a place with too much political correctness

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Remember kids, just because you are offended, doesn't mean that you are entitled to anything - especially not the right to whine like a little bitch.

They have the right to whine all they want. The problem is when people give in to their whining.

Which is why we need tort reform

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Remember kids, just because you are offended, doesn't mean that you are entitled to anything - especially not the right to whine like a little bitch.

They have the right to whine all they want. The problem is when people give in to their whining.

Which is why we need tort reform

I was leaning more towards bullet reform, but whatever turns you on.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: BroeBo
Free speech is a myth.

No, it is not. "Free speech" as defined in our Constitution only protects you from government action. It does not protect you from social and professional repercussions, public opinion, and differing opinions.

So "free speech" as defined in our Constitution is alive and well and far from a myth.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
A wise man once said, "If you don't occasionally get offended, you are not living in a free society."

Well, we are now living in a society where people have become hypersensitive to everything and actually get offended at minor things. Not only that, but the indignation assumed by someone having the nerve to make the offending statement has gone off the deepend.

Example - The finance minister (not exact title) of the state of California recently warned of the coming tsunami like budget crisis. This statement was idiotic and innapropriate, but the repurcussions are going to heard around the world and someone will ask this guy to retire... :roll:

Freedom of expression is an important fundamental right and we as a society are crushing it under the jackboot of political correctness.

I would like to challenege all of you to just take a step back the next time you get offended and to think about whether or not getting offended is any of the following:
1. a useful feeling in any way
2. a sign of your own weakness as a person
3. appropriate in the context the person was talking in
4. an opportunity to educate the person
5 an opening to razz the hell out of him for being a jackass.

Remember kids, just because you are offended, doesn't mean that you are entitled to anything - especially not the right to whine like a little bitch.

I do not understand the resistance to treating people with common every day courtesy and respect. If someone tells me they are offended by something I said or did I make a point of not doing it again.

Ask yourself why would you knowingly say and do hurtful and hateful things.

 

[SagaLore]

I blame it on liberalism.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I blame it on liberalism.

Yeah. I'm sure it was a bunch of liberals highly offended by a nipple on live TV.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I blame it on liberalism.

Yeah. I'm sure it was a bunch of liberals highly offended by a nipple on live TV.

Or that Monday Night Football intro with TO and that Blond Bimbo.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
I do not understand the resistance to treating people with common every day courtesy and respect. If someone tells me they are offended by something I said or did I make a point of not doing it again.

Ask yourself why would you knowingly say and do hurtful and hateful things.

The issue the OP is bringing up is not about courtesy and respect. It's about reactionary activist censorship. It's one thing to be intentional hurtful, it's another to be picked apart syllable by syllable as if everyone must be perfect. Radical liberal utopia.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
I do not understand the resistance to treating people with common every day courtesy and respect. If someone tells me they are offended by something I said or did I make a point of not doing it again.

Ask yourself why would you knowingly say and do hurtful and hateful things.

The issue the OP is bringing up is not about courtesy and respect. It's about reactionary activist censorship. It's one thing to be intentional hurtful, it's another to be picked apart syllable by syllable as if everyone must be perfect. Radical liberal utopia.

The Radical Christian Right is just as oppresive if not more than the Radical Left. You don't see the Left trying to ban books.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
I do not understand the resistance to treating people with common every day courtesy and respect. If someone tells me they are offended by something I said or did I make a point of not doing it again.

Ask yourself why would you knowingly say and do hurtful and hateful things.

The issue the OP is bringing up is not about courtesy and respect. It's about reactionary activist censorship. It's one thing to be intentional hurtful, it's another to be picked apart syllable by syllable as if everyone must be perfect. Radical liberal utopia.

Exactly...

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I blame it on liberalism.

Yeah. I'm sure it was a bunch of liberals highly offended by a nipple on live TV.

The extreme far Right is as much liberal as the extreme far Left. True conservatism is neither left or right, it's somewhere in the middle.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
I do not understand the resistance to treating people with common every day courtesy and respect. If someone tells me they are offended by something I said or did I make a point of not doing it again.

Ask yourself why would you knowingly say and do hurtful and hateful things.

The issue the OP is bringing up is not about courtesy and respect. It's about reactionary activist censorship. It's one thing to be intentional hurtful, it's another to be picked apart syllable by syllable as if everyone must be perfect. Radical liberal utopia.

The Radical Christian Right is just as oppresive if not more than the Radical Left. You don't see the Left trying to ban books.

I completely agree!

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
I do not understand the resistance to treating people with common every day courtesy and respect. If someone tells me they are offended by something I said or did I make a point of not doing it again.

Ask yourself why would you knowingly say and do hurtful and hateful things.

The issue the OP is bringing up is not about courtesy and respect. It's about reactionary activist censorship. It's one thing to be intentional hurtful, it's another to be picked apart syllable by syllable as if everyone must be perfect. Radical liberal utopia.

I'm just curious, and I mean this with the utmost respect: Is every social matter with you so easily distilled into an apparent dichotomy of left versus right?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Thanks for the lesson teach. Now STFU.

 

[Gothgar]

Blame it on PC

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
I do not understand the resistance to treating people with common every day courtesy and respect. If someone tells me they are offended by something I said or did I make a point of not doing it again.

Ask yourself why would you knowingly say and do hurtful and hateful things.

The issue the OP is bringing up is not about courtesy and respect. It's about reactionary activist censorship. It's one thing to be intentional hurtful, it's another to be picked apart syllable by syllable as if everyone must be perfect. Radical liberal utopia.

I'm just curious, and I mean this with the utmost respect: Is every social matter with you so easily distilled into an apparent dichotomy of left versus right?

Yes. They are just classifications that encompass ideals after all.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Gothgar
Blame it on PC

Ther personal computer has nothing to do with this! Take it back :|

 

[Amused]

Both the left and the right are equally dangerous to our rights and freedoms with one side trying to protect us from ourselves and the other side trying to protect our souls from ourselves.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Amused
Both the left and the right are equally dangerous to our rights and freedoms with one side trying to protect us from ourselves and the other side trying to protect our souls from ourselves.

I think that is very well put.