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> not everyone harbors racist, sexist, or otherwise wholly objectionable thoughts in the recesses of their mind and certainly not everyone speaks such things pu
by oddevan 11y ago
> not everyone harbors racist, sexist, or otherwise wholly objectionable thoughts in the recesses of their mind and certainly not everyone speaks such things publicly.
I'll agree that "not everyone speaks such things publicly." The issue here is that jokes that are funny or at least "okay" in one context are incredibly offensive out of that context, and social media makes it easy for jokes to be taken out of context.
But everyone, everyone has something in their mind that someone else finds objectionable. This is human nature. Even if those thoughts are not voiced or acted on, they are still there. The internet is so large with so many different views that inevitably someone will offend someone else without meaning to; even views that one person does not consider "sexist" could be "sexist" to someone else.
- Retric 11y agoI would take it further. People hate A, other people hate (not) A, and plenty of people on both sides hate those who don't pick a side. In the end there is no stance that does not offend someone. So, I don't think we can use offending someone as a reasonable rule for anything.