[QUOTE="Guppy507"]People have always been too easily offended.SideSwipes
But these days people get offended if you call a black person black. I remember there was a thread about that a while ago.
I think that people always play the race card because they get sympathy.
I remember watching a TV show called Road Wars and this guy got arrested for smashing some windows, he was calling the police racist for arresting him.
[QUOTE="Guppy507"]People have always been too easily offended.ProjectClash
But these days people get offended if you call a black person black. I remember there was a thread about that a while ago.
I think that people always play the race card because they get sympathy.
I remember watching a TV show called Road Wars and this guy got arrested for smashing some windows, he was calling the police racist for arresting him.
Yes. It's been like that forever but it's got worse because of the nanny states governments have created. People are suing and demanding rights for almost everything.
yes. this girl back in 6th grade said im glue and i said but im not white. she called me racist.
T_REX305
someone called me white i showed them a paper the next day stating i'm half hispanic/greek...........she called me a trojan wetback i laughed and she called me racist
I think people are too offended easily these days, but I also believe people takes others offence very lightly without considering why they are offended. It's a matter of two extremes in this day and age.
Probably the same percentage of people get offended...it's just that with political correctness everything is made out to be bigger than it is....and not because it's offended anyone in many cases.
A local politician got fired because, during a meeting to discuss the state budget, called some program a financial blackhole. He meant that money goes in and never comes out like it was originally intended. Some black member of the board stands up and basically goes "Excuse me?!"..... so yes. People are way too offended these days.
yes and no, i hate when people say someone gets offended easily, unless you know what that person has been through in life and something happens and they get offended by it who am i to just say wow that guy is to easily hurt, i can't say that because i don't know what he's been through. Case in point back in the day as jokes we would rip on each others mom's "for fun" you know yo mamma jokes, there was this one kid who would always get pissed and upset when other kids would talk about his mom, we would say chillout its just jokes man your easily offended, than one day i talked to the guy and he told me his mom passed away and i felt like the biggest douche ever "i was only 9 but still" so like i said you don't know what someone has been throuh so to say someone is easily offended is just bad to me
yes and no, i hate when people say someone gets offended easily, unless you know what that person has been through in life and something happens and they get offended by it who am i to just say wow that guy is to easily hurt, i can't say that because i don't know what he's been through.
Chris_Williams
Meh....doesn't matter...it's only words.....and unless that particular individuals opinion matters to you.....
yes and no, i hate when people say someone gets offended easily, unless you know what that person has been through in life and something happens and they get offended by it who am i to just say wow that guy is to easily hurt, i can't say that because i don't know what he's been through.
LJS9502_basic
Meh....doesn't matter...it's only words.....and unless that particular individuals opinion matters to you..... s your "its only words" guy, yeah words don't hurt you but for others it does go re-read my edit post, i know if anyone talked about my mom "when she passed away" i would be "easily offended" and pissed off so ehh, not everyone is like you
People are way too offended and don't look at context before they make assumptions. People especially take comedy too seriously.
I'm an Australian and we tend to have a more offensive type of humour, it's just our culture. Our humour can be summed up as black, anti-PC, anti-authoritarian, and self-mocking. We mock ourselves, therefore we can mock everyone else as well. Those people that stand on their high horse and get offended just become the targets because they don't realise what we do - everyone can be the object of humour so why not let them?
yes and no, i hate when people say someone gets offended easily, unless you know what that person has been through in life and something happens and they get offended by it who am i to just say wow that guy is to easily hurt, i can't say that because i don't know what he's been through.
Chris_Williams
Meh....doesn't matter...it's only words.....and unless that particular individuals opinion matters to you..... s your "its only words" guy, yeah words don't hurt you but for others it does go re-read my edit post, i know if anyone talked about my mom "when she passed away" i would be "easily offended" and pissed off so ehh, not everyone is like you Then you are letting them win by letting their words mean anything....they don't. No one will be universally liked.
I think people get easily offended because we don't know if something being said is intended as an insult or not. For example, when you're around your friends and family, you know how they act and how they use sarcasm. When you're talking to a complete stranger, you don't know these things, so you can very easily misconstrue something they say when the speaker didn't intend it that way.
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