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>Is it offensive? Yes. Can we stop saying this as a universal truth? You find it offensive. I and millions other people don't. You deal with it.
by Mikushi 11y ago
>Is it offensive? Yes.
Can we stop saying this as a universal truth?
You find it offensive. I and millions other people don't. You deal with it.
- glass- 11y agoYou don't find it offensive. I and millions of other people do. You deal with it.
- the8472 11y agoWhy should one group of people acquiesce to another group of people's demands just because they claim offensiveness. Should everyone live to the strictest thinkable standards because somewhere out there is a semi-large group of people who find your behavior offensive? Such semi-large groups might be religions for example that take various kinds of behaviors you take for granted as offensive.
- LesZedCB 11y agoIt's not that you have to. It's a social grace to not offend people. If you really want to, you are allowed to. But when society says to fuck off -- well, you got what you paid for.
- Taek 11y agoPeople getting offended is not the issue. If everyone chose to never offend anybody else, my mother would never know that she makes bad pasta and we'd all have to eat bad pasta 3 times a week. You want to draw the line at marginalizing a group of people or trivializing something serious like racism. But you want to make sure you are doing it in a way that isn't inhibiting legitimate thoughts, studies, projects, etc. from making it into the public sphere. Every time you censor speech you stifle legitimate dialog because people will be uncertain whether their thoughts are legitimate or just offensive.
- hueving 11y agoMillions of people find all kinds of things offensive. One half of the political spectrum finds the other offensive. That doesn't mean we just ban everything. Nobody cares that you are offended. Get over it.
- jackweirdy 11y agoNo, the people who run the website find it offensive, it's their house, so you deal with it or leave.
- Cthulhu_ 11y agoOr they could go "It's open source, go submit a pull request". You know, the human approach instead of the PC Police approach where they appeal to authority and have a faceless one Demand the PC filter to be applied.
- jokr004 11y agoI agree with what you're getting at, but at the same time it's reasonable to say that a non-trivial number of people are offended by the term.. So even while most people don't take offense, I don't think it's wrong to describe the word as offensive.