No offense but,

KKkitty · 19-07-2015 02:08AM #1

With so many things happening worldwide that people can be offended by do you think that sometimes people genuinely fake outrage just so they have something to be offended by? It just seems to me that more people take offense to more things now than they ever did. You can't say such and such a thing because so and so will be upset. I'm personally getting sick of it more and more each day.

uch · 19-07-2015 02:10AM

Would you like a bit of Cake though ?

endacl · 19-07-2015 02:11AM

Is this about minions...?

jungleman · 19-07-2015 02:13AM

Ugh it's just in vogue now.

I am going to show everyone how liberal, forward thinking, tolerant, and in touch with humanity I am by being offended at your offensive statement. Furthermore I demand an apology. Blah blah blah blah blah.

I can't fart in the shower these days without my nose being offended.

KKkitty · 19-07-2015 02:14AM

What kind of cake are you talking about? My world goes beyond minions.

the evasion_kid · 19-07-2015 02:14AM

Part of the narcisstic,whiney ass generation we find ourselves in.

KKkitty · 19-07-2015 02:16AM

the evasion_kid wrote: »

Part of the narcisstic,whiney ass generation we find ourselves in.

Some people need to get a grip that's for sure.

uch · 19-07-2015 02:17AM

KKkitty wrote: »

What kind of cake are you talking about? My world goes beyond minions.

Nice Cake !

B.A._Baracus · 19-07-2015 02:18AM

I know what you mean KKkity.
Ultimately these people are just assholes and as the_evasion_kid said... that's the generation we live in. Someone always seems to have a problem with something.

KKkitty · 19-07-2015 02:20AM

uch wrote: »

Nice Cake !

I'll be offended if it's not chocolate.

Tombi! · 19-07-2015 02:20AM

It's existed for far longer than the modern day.
People are nosy. They like to get involved in other people's business.
It's more noticeable now with the internet.

uch · 19-07-2015 02:21AM

KKkitty wrote: »

I'll be offended if it's not chocolate.

Of course, sprinkles too !

KKkitty · 19-07-2015 02:22AM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

I know what you mean KKkity.
Ultimately these people are just assholes and as the_evasion_kid said... that's the generation we live in. Someone always seems to have a problem with something.

I'm in my thirties and honestly have never seen or heard so many people taking offense to the most banal of things.

KKkitty · 19-07-2015 02:24AM

uch wrote: »

Of course, sprinkles too !

Good on you. Getting less offended now thanks

Robsweezie · 19-07-2015 02:27AM

KKKitty? an obvious racist !

KKkitty · 19-07-2015 02:34AM

Robsweezie wrote: »

KKKitty? an obvious racist !

The third k is in lower case so I'm offended you'd think I'm racist.

Red21 · 19-07-2015 02:39AM

KKkitty wrote: »

With so many things happening worldwide that people can be offended by do you think that sometimes people genuinely fake outrage just so they have something to be offended by? It just seems to me that more people take offense to more things now than they ever did. You can't say such and such a thing because so and so will be upset. I'm personally getting sick of it more and more each day.

I have no idea what you are talking about. You seem to be upset cause.... What you u like to say?would u like to cut someone down?

The King of Moo · 19-07-2015 02:39AM

Maybe there are some people like that.
Some.

But there are also plenty of people these days who want to shut down about discrimination or injustice by complaining about people taking offense to something (and they always post that tired old Stephen Fry video and use the phrase "special little snowflake").
They tend to act as though anyone being offended by something is always irrelevant and not worth being considered by anyone else.
Or they seem to mistake our freedom to choose to take into consideration someone being offended with an obligation not to take it into consideration.
"Oh you're offended by me calling you 'a stupid c*nt?' Well I'm sorry, but that's not my problem!"

Sometimes it's worth looking at why someone gets offended, and finding out if there's genuine discrimination of mistreatment going on.

But I'm sure this new fad of pretending to have no empathy for others will go away in time.

19-07-2015 02:44AM

Yea the concept of being offended has entered into the public discourse in a bad way - and some people milk it - as always happens when a change in the public narrative happens. Fake outrage - a narrative of persecution - Oh ye on high protect me from offense!

I think I come from the OFFEND me narrative not the "Sorry did I offend you and if so how?" one. I welcome offense. And I never want to respond to it with litigation, reports to moderators, or violence. I respond to it with the only words that it truly deserves. Which are "Oh really? I upset you? Can you detail for me exactly how and why and what I can do better in future"

uch · 19-07-2015 02:46AM

All these Cake haters!

KKkitty · 19-07-2015 02:48AM

uch wrote: »

All these Cake haters!

All those cakes not being eaten makes me sad

Less offense, more cake.

TheLastMohican · 19-07-2015 03:19AM

The manufactured indignation artists, bleeding hearts, bleeding craw-thumpers and chip-on-the-shoulder attention seekers. I get you but remember they are always welcome aboard boards - the safe haven for pessimists.

19-07-2015 03:30AM

Perhaps we need a war.

Science, medicine and world peace have downgraded man's mortality to an abstraction. Freed from the challenges that made our world a hostile and dangerous environment, mankind no longer needs to strive and adapt in the way that made the species so great and so enterprising and so successful.

You could argue that our world has become soft and so have our heads.

We might just be the most degenerate spawn of our species to have walked the earth's floor for a hundred thousand years, or longer.

On that cheerful note... does anyone know who won Big Brother in the end?

jobeenfitz · 19-07-2015 03:39AM

Is it a fruit cake and is it fake? Most of us are fake to some degree? Displaying outrage or approval.

eet fuk · 19-07-2015 04:15AM

Why do you give a **** if someone is offended anyway? People have the power of communicating their opinions very easily now - so you're pretty much getting every side of the story.
Everything will offend somebody; it's not a modern phenomenon. There are just more media to express disagreement is all.

eternal · 19-07-2015 04:40AM

Take note.

BunkMoreland · 19-07-2015 04:41AM

You all sound like a bunch of offended whiney little bitches.

I see a load of cake references, I'm guessing it's the latest fad from the boards clique? How hilarious!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 19-07-2015 06:10AM

SJWs sorry to use the term have no sense of humour, they feign outrage whenever they hear or perceive an insult against one of their pet groups. They don't seem to get the whole concept that being equal means that all people are subject to ridicule and mockery.

Kev W · 19-07-2015 07:26AM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Maybe there are some people like that.
Some.

But there are also plenty of people these days who want to shut down about discrimination or injustice by complaining about people taking offense to something (and they always post that tired old Stephen Fry video and use the phrase "special little snowflake").
They tend to act as though anyone being offended by something is always irrelevant and not worth being considered by anyone else.
Or they seem to mistake our freedom to choose to take into consideration someone being offended with an obligation not to take it into consideration.
"Oh you're offended by me calling you 'a stupid c*nt?' Well I'm sorry, but that's not my problem!"

Sometimes it's worth looking at why someone gets offended, and finding out if there's genuine discrimination of mistreatment going on.

But I'm sure this new fad of pretending to have no empathy for others will go away in time.

Another thing these people often do is take any negative feeling a person expresses towards something as being "offended" and then use that as an excuse to ignore that person's point of view.

Look on many of the threads here and you'll see the first people to bring up the very concept of being offended are the ones telling people that being offended doesn't matter.
Express anger, disgust or sadness at something and you'll be told you're actually just offended and it doesn't matter.

19-07-2015 07:37AM

KKkitty wrote: »

It just seems to me that more people take offense to more things now than they ever did. You can't say such and such a thing because so and so will be upset. I'm personally getting sick of it more and more each day.

I think the exact opposite, that we can say far more now than we could in years gone by.

I grew up in a country where you could say little or nothing publicly against so many institutions, the Church, the GAA, politicians, your local bank manager etc. The only groups you could kick were minorities and the disadvantaged, so swearing was "you spa, you fag" and no one took offence to that. Anyone remember the reaction here when Sinead O'Connor tore up a photo of the Pope or Paisley called him the anti Christ, people nearly had strokes they were so offended.

Giblet · 19-07-2015 08:55AM

The problem with being offended is that no-one has to care that you're offended. You don't have a right not to be offended. As for apologising? "I'm sorry you're offended easily!"

No offense but,

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