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QUESTION: Do you think there is a National obsession with destroying people who make statements that others find offensive?
Talk about it….
Absolutely. There is and will always be something that someone will find offensive to them but not necessarily to others. Not everybody but a precious few of late seem to think they need to dwell on this until all “conform” to their way of thinking. Another one is the word “racism” . That one has worn so thin that it really has no meaning any longer. Everything is “racist” now especially if you don’t agree with something someone else says. That is not racist that is a disagreement
Very well put Dee. I definitely concur!
Nobody can offend you without your permission.
Fake news media is to blame. Ask our President and he’ll say it’s a witch-hunt.
That was a really orthogonal and just plain poor statement.
What does he actually mean by “witch hunt”? It’s just deflection as far as I can see. Did he ever read anything about Salem? Doubtful. But is excites the “base” so that’s that’s good for him. To me it’s just nothing.
this mentality is being taught in schools and colleges freely
instead of dealing with things
children are taught to react aggressively
to the other side
same teachings that were told to germans before they were taken over by a a sadistic group who tormented and enslaved the people to fight for them or die
if you ever wondered how german civilians were tricked into being pawns in 1930 …you are living it …..
Can you please expand on the German civilian point? Not sure I follow how being offended led to Nazi Germany.
hmmm Take away your guns, go to jail for hate speech, illegal inquisitions like the one taking place in congress, and don’t forget antifa.
Little known fact is that a joke told by Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria upset a guy named Gavrilo Princip who then assassinated the archduke and his wife thus starting WWI.
Franz said: “Ten Serbians attacked a German girl and tore off all her clothes… the German girl shrieked “Nein! Nein!” so the Serbs huddled together , drew straws & then one of them left “
to Hmmm ,it takes a bit more maturity to understand how being offended can lead to dictatorship.People start being PC and conforming to the complainers,giving in and giving up all protection because a few are offended,but they aren’t really offended,it’s part of the process that takes away all freedoms.Esp when people are offended by firearms so everyone surrenders them.Pay more attention in your history class and maybe by the time you get out of high school you will understand.This is one of the easiest social problems to understand,and not let happen.
DrJ,the sinking of the Lusitania by the Germans is what actually started WW1.This is what caused Britain to declare war on Germany
Okie dokie ……Jon… thanks for setting me straight there.
I’d hate to die thinking it was all Franz’s fault for poking fun at Gavrilo…
From Wikipedia: “The assassination of Ferdinand is considered the most immediate cause of World War I.” Ferdinand was assassinated on 28 June 1914. Princip, a Serb, belonged to a secret society that sought to free Bosnia from Austrian rule. This is what I learned in school, as well. The sinking of the RMS Lusitania occurred 7 May 1915, almost a year later. World War I is said to have occurred from 28 July 1914, the date of Ferdinand’s death, to 11 November 1918, the date the Armistice with Germany was signed ending the war.
Nazi Germany occurred between 1933 and 1945, and was considered World War II. Different war entirely.
Jon the Lusitania was sunk one year after the war started. In 1914 my dad an Austrian was 19 years old. He was in the army lickity split and fighting the Russian side until the Russians quit. Survived many bloody battles.
In the extras to the movie “Sophie Sholl: The Final Days” they interviewed people who were around when Hitler came to power. Some said that people just thought the Nazis would just go away. Hitler was not popular in major cities but more in the rural areas with the working class. Sound familiar? Look up “The White Rose Society”, which was an student led anti-Nazi resistance group. Sholl and her brother were members of it. They were captured, tried and guillotined.
Or was it the “Why Serbians don’t eat pickles” joke?
If you say something offensive and you are just being a jerk – then I am fine with the counter-attack.
If you want to throw punches don’t cry a river when people punch back.
You have Freedom of Speech – but not – Freedom from Consequences in the public arena.
Ah, the irony of this comment.
It’s that same “no freedom from consequence” that applies to both parties and enables outrage culture.
“If you say something offensive and you are just being a jerk – then I am fine with the counter-attack.”
As long as the counter attack is also verbal in nature, I agree.
I AM OFFENDED BY THIS QUESTION!
Hilarious!!!
I am offended by your response to the subject!
I don’t know, I think there are a few people on the radical left that have their thoughts amplified by the media for some reason, but I think most people are just trying to be a little nicer and a little more sympathetic.
No. It’s not a national obsession, but some groups do it.
Latest assault on First Amendment in an effort to coerce conformity to liberal’s way of thinking. pelosi actually went before news cameras describing another method often employed by liberals to smear those they don’t like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LlHU53G2Z0
If one controls speech, they control the narrative.
People are deliberately more vicious than they ever were, and I say they can do that all they like, but if they don’t like the consequences, from arousing the anger of others to possible loss of a job, maybe they should gear their life to being a little more friendly.
Good one.
I wouldn’t say it’s a national obsession, but it might be an obsession with quite a few liberals, and I say liberals because I don’t want to group all Democrats into one category. Most Dems I know are decent hard working people, and are either middle of the road or slightly left of center, they aren’t as liberal as some Republicans might think they are. In fact a lot of them say and do things that a far left liberal would find offensive. It seems to me that it’s the fake news media that’s portraying all Dems as far left liberals, just as they portray all Repubs as far right uneducated, redneck, racists.
People that find everything offensive seem to be living unhappy and angry lives, while the rest of Americans go about their daily lives, and the thought of finding anything offensive doesn’t even occur to them.
The US is a great country, and most Americans are great people.
We have four defenses for offensive speech it seems.
1. Ignore it
2. Run to your safe space
3. Shoot
4. Answer back with something also offensive
Some people offend easily and some people attack at the slightest thing. Not good when getting those two people / groups together.
I agree with Kentucky Derby – no one can offend you unless you allow them to.
If some people go out of their way to pick a fight with me, and I respond like a descent human being yet they continue to bully me, they’re going to “get the horns” which may require that you pardon my French.
If one is a Snowflake, possibly.
Name calling in offense. When did it become okay?
It never became okay. It’s rude and inconsiderate, but it’s legal and must remain so. Contrary to popular belief these days, there’s no human right to be un-offended
There have always been people who are inconsiderate, now there are just more of them. A lot of them become politicians or work for the news media.
Seems to me like politically left-leaning people don’t have very thick skins anymore. What I don’t like is that if someone says something a person doesn’t like, they look too deep into their comment to FIND a reason to be “offended” even if you have to take what was said out of context.
When one of the snowflakes gets offended, send them a gift.
Have taken to ordering in ordering a dozen at a time from a baby supply house. Print out this photo to include with the gift.
https://imgflip.com/i/1vaa3k
A good video about this subject: Cancel Culture Isn’t A Thing, You Snowflakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szybEhqUmVI
I watched as much of that as I could stomach. His take is that losing out on a gig because some SJW dug up something “offensive” (try to picture those as air quotes – which this moron uses) is not the same as losing an entire career for a celebrity. So they’re not actually “cancelled”. His position is based entirely on semantics. Such brilliance.
As far as I can tell, the liberal snowflakes are the ones who insist on extracting revenge when they’re offended and this dates back to the first incident with a comment by Bill Maher on “Politically Incorrect” after 9/11. People were very “touchy” about the events of 9/11 and humor was strained.
It seemed to rear its ugly head again when Trump took office, I believe out of the frustration liberals felt that their candidate was not elected. In some respects the preceding eight years were a period of repression during which liberals were unable to express their disappointment and annoyance with the manner in which the Obama administration was running things and conservatives dared not. As Obama left office, all those buried resentments underwent a conversion and burst forth as misplaced digs and needling, and inappropriate humor directed at Trump. When conservatives retaliated, it was on.
Short answer, “Yes.”
Liberals are so insecure in their politically correct way of life they can not tolerate criticism, humor about it, nor disdain of any kind. Their slavery to this politically correct credo, in fact, breeds a phoniness and inauthenticity because one can never say what they truly think. That is verboten. What they think is defined by the politically correct credo and they dare not express otherwise. It only stands to reason, then, that it is imperative that they take offense and quickly attempt to quell any thought that might arise outside of their authoritarian construct. Their carefully constructed reality is so fragile, everything is a threat.
Interesting the ones who do it all the time find an excuse to blame others for not being able to take the insults.
Gosh Randy, such insight. Do tell – who is to blame when someone can’t “take the insults”?
Yes, I know from personal experience that your statement is absolutely true. It happened to me during my campaign for Congress. Not because I wasn’t telling the truth, but because exposing the truth can be damaging to those in power. Those who doubt what I am saying is fact literally have no idea how America truly operates.
I don’t know about the offense part but attacking people personally is rampant. Civility is dead.
Yes, yes, yes..! There are too many thin-skinned crybabies who, later, become vindictive if their feelings get hurt. The world is full of a$$____s who say mean things to others, that’s never going to change. The only way to deal with nasty people is to ignore them, don’t give them anything.
I once got banned from FB for a few days for using the word ‘freakazoid’ because they hire low paid teeny boppers as their censors to look for key words and stop them.Another time I posted a photo of a double rainbow over Clayton,and they pulled the post and said I t”didnt meet community standards” no,its because it had the word rainbow in it and we all know who owns that word now,and this confused the teens that work there