Actually , folks were offended before, many just didn’t believe they had the freedom to [b]say so[/b] without retaliation.
And seriously, unless you’re choosing to remain inside an entitled, privileged bubble, listening to only the traditional mainstream U.S. narrative, you [b]should[/b] be offended by some things that are still happening. That offense makes you an empathetic human being and not a heartless, apathetic piece of crap. 😞
I remember in grade school a popular rhyme saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, yet words will never hurt me".
This has a lot to do with the attitudes today. Especially in how it's interpreted.
Taking it from the person saying the hurtful words it is often interpreted as: why should it matter. And so they continue the insults. They interpret it as a way to insult others. They believe they are not hurting others and they have a right to say anything.
Yet on the point of view receiving the insults it's meaning is taken as a defense mechanism.
That little saying though has done more harm than many might believe.
Words can and do cause harm. Just not in a overt physical manner.
Physical harm isn't mental harm. Yet mental harm is very real.
So one side will say toughen up. And the other side ignore it as a defense, yet still want the insults to stop.
Is either one right though?
To me life is change. And a little of both sides on this controversy should be taken.
Words can hurt. They shouldn't be used as a weapon. Yet at the same time words shouldn't be ignored. Because words do have meaning.
Hope I'm making this clear. So many times I have offended others not meaning to offend anyone.
I've noticed that those who most often claim that [i]others[/i] are so or too "easily offended these days", are very often quite easily offended themselves.
@bijouxbroussard I do understand the history. I just think it was less harsh then women who were still giving birth to dead deformed babies late as the 1960s due to radiation poisoning, and causing misery in Iran and then causing death on a large scale in Iraq just so the dive to Miami Beach is cheaper, are larger injustices. I’m neither Asian or Arab but I don’t just see the injustices to my own race.
People really are too quick to take offense at every comment nowadays. A few years ago I made an innocent comment that a child was being loud. I only said this after he had been yelling in a screechy voice for 2 hours straight. Well his grandmother overheard me and accused me of making fun of her apparently autistic grandson. All I had said was the kid was loud. Somehow that got twisted into I was making fun of him. 🫤
@Cloud7593 In that case, the grandmother was in the wrong, because you didn't know the kid was autistic. Kids get loud, with or without having something wrong with them. How could you have known?
@Cloud7593 Sounds like she was feeling defensive because [b]she[/b] must’ve known he was being loud. Not sure how a total stranger was supposed to know it was because of autism. 🙁
In regards to the other response, it's offensive. Every country probably has some, at least, near equivalent word that's not ok to ever use. Usually we learn that at home, but it seems like that's a lost art now too. It is ok to not be heartless.
@BackyardShaman One of my earliest memories is seeing such a sign while we were driving to Louisiana. I think we were in Vidor, Texas and I was just learning to read. I read it aloud and asked my father what it meant. Grimly he replied that it meant we shouldn’t linger, and stepped on the gas.
@bijouxbroussard while I was growing up I saw these signs around North Georgia, we were supposed white people ourselves. However we weren’t white enough for those towns. My dad told me when I asked about the signs they were horrible mean people and we got on through there. Sandy Cross, Georgia close to Commerce Georgia.
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I find most people who say that just want to gaslight, they think they can say derogatory things about minority groups for their own entertainment.
