Know when to be offended.

[Scuba]

[In_The_Wind]

1. Kicked and recommended

[madokie]

2. Good advice if ever there was any

It sure is getting hard to not be offended by the presence of a republiCON though.

[99Forever]

3. K&R

[alp227]

4. Do you not think offensive speech exists?

I hate how people frame the concept of being offended and parse it in relative privation.

[Scuba]

5. I could find your post offensive, but I'm just not a gonna!

[alp227]

6. OK, but can you answer my question?

I'm tired of seeing the fallacy of relative privation ("this is not as bad as that&quot used as an argument.

[Scuba]

7. Yes, offensive speech occurs every day. I think the point is ...

... that we should save our outrage for things that matter and not the mutterings of nuttery.

[alp227]

8. OK, but isn't that the fallacy of relative privation?

One can walk and chew gum at the same time. It's not a zero-sum game in combatting right wing garbage vs. "real world issues".

[vanlassie]

11. Um... I think it's called " Choose your battles."

[riqster]

21. "Mutterings of nuttery"...

Stealing!

[lovemydog]

22. Try it peanut buttery.

It's mucho yummery.

[riqster]

24. Get thee to a nunnery!

[JackRiddler]

13. Please look up privation.

Yes, offensive speech exists and can be very harmful to the people it targets. I do not agree with the OP as a general principle in all cases, but it does address an exaggerated style of being offended that has become very widespread, is counterproductive and distracting, and is actually abused by many to reinforce their own privileges. (See all the right-wingers constantly offended about things like insufficient displays of "patriotism" or "the war on Christmas.&quot

[Scuba]

23. I looked it up. Means exactly what I thought it did.

[JackRiddler]

25. Poverty, want?

Did you mean by your usage something like, stripped of context?

[Scuba]

26. Me? My usage? I didn't use the word.

[JackRiddler]

31. Oops.

Thought you were the other one responding. Sorry.

[rustydog]

29. Well said!

Thanks!

[snooper2]

33. Is this the right place to insert a 2 Live Crew video?

(also, this serves as a reminder Broward County in FL has always been a shithole )

[abelenkpe]

9. Pollution

Maybe that's just a product of greed and injustice?

[cyberswede]

10. Sometimes injustice is demonstrated by what people say to others

just sayin'.

[Enthusiast]

12. Kicked and recommended!

[RiffRandell]

14. K&R!

Love you Scuba! You are a great DUer!

[Scuba]

16. Be still my beating heart!

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Kicking. Thank you, Scuba. nt

[hughee99]

17. What's the point of being an anonymous

Internet poster if I can't be offended by every little slight (real or perceived) and use it as an excuse to vent a disproportionate amount of anger?

[freebrew]

28. Exactly! ...

(heh, heh, heh)

[jtuck004]

18. Speech is only as offensive as you let it be. The others are real. 1000+ K&R

[LuvNewcastle]

19. I couldn't agree more.

We'd have a much better world if we stopped wasting energy on whining and obsessing over small matters and spent that energy thinking of ways to fix the big problems.

[hue]

20. Thanks again for some common sense. K&R

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

34. Yes, in a world where common sense

isn't common anymore.

[L0oniX]

27. K & R

[valerief]

30. I'd love to see political correctness made obsolete and the true enemies stand public scrutiny. nt

[the_sly_pig]

32. Couldn't agree more. nt