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    only offensive if someone takes offense to them

    in that way, it's their fault
    Originally posted by Knifeboy
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    necesarilly

  • #2
    Re: offensive words

    Originally posted by Lye In Your Eye View Post
    only offensive if someone takes offense to them

    in that way, it's their fault
    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, aye?

    I agree with you. A word has no meaning; it is merely a noise. The ear and brain interpret said sound into a meaning. This is where offense is taken. You are not offended by what I said, but rather by what you heard.
    I don't have the time it takes to recover from the day
    I sit and moan and mope and groan and never have my say
    A crown of thorns from which is born a little baby bird
    To fly away and have its day is nothing but absurd

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    • #3
      Re: offensive words

      abortion rape
      holocaust 9/11
      faggot nigger
      pedophilia
      necrophilia

      that's one hell
      of a shopping
      list

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      • #4
        Re: offensive words

        Originally posted by Lye In Your Eye View Post
        only offensive if someone takes offense to them

        in that way, it's their fault
        I say it all depends on the context, if you said in a very serious way that you'd want to rape my mother, then obviously I'd be offended

        because that's my job, not yours

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        • #5
          Re: offensive words

          Erik Pemberton, the man with no boundaries...
          Originally posted by Ars Sycro
          I have a type. I like hot bitches.

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          • #6
            Re: offensive words

            Lye and ANKOF, both of you presume that the offended person is as mature and self-assured as you seem to be. You don't take into account a person's experiences or emotional stability. You don't give any consideration to the fact that every person or situation is different.

            It is true that no one likes to be told what he can and cannot say. No one wants fingers wagging at them and holier-than-thous scolding them. I know I don't.

            But it's unrealistic to think that you shouldn't be offended if, say, someone called your mother a fat cunt. Or someone called your (hypothetical) handicapped brother a botched-abortion retard. If that wouldn't offend you, you're an emotional vacuum, and that's your decision. But pointing the finger at your mom or brother and saying it would be their fault if they were offended is fucked up.

            The names I was called when I was a child and teenager are still with me. I've moved past that, and I don't give a shit if 95% of the country thinks I'm an ugly stupid cunt. But if my husband ever called me those things I'd never get over it. I don't think giving "meaning" to what he says to me or about me is irrational.

            Names have power due to who uses them against us. They also have power due to who used them against us in the past. Chances are if a black person on this board was offended by Erik's use of the word "nigger," it wouldn't be because he thinks so highly of Erik. It might possibly be because he'd been beaten up in the past by someone else using that word.

            Saying, "it's your fault if you're offended," is emotionally satisfying because it takes all responsibility off of the person who wants to get off by saying something hateful or controversial or un-PC, but it's still what it is: hateful, rude, or puerile.

            So, yeah, while philosophically, what you're arguing has some truth some of the time, it's still presumptuous and hollow to apply it to everyone and every situation.
            Last edited by Trathena; September 15, 2008, 11:16 PM. Reason: clarity

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            • #7
              Re: offensive words

              ...it is pretty funny to see the contrast in Tra-La-La and Pemberton's post even though they almost say the same thing...
              Originally posted by Ars Sycro
              I have a type. I like hot bitches.

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              • #8
                Re: offensive words

                Originally posted by One Second Clubber View Post
                Erik Pemberton, the man with no boundaries...
                it feels
                great
                to be
                understood

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                • #9
                  Re: offensive words

                  Did Tra-la-la just call my brother a botched abortion retard? Ouch.
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                  Originally posted by TheRuleofThree
                  Very well - you caught me in a rare mistake. I commend you for achieving this elite honor.

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                  • #10
                    Re: offensive words

                    yup. that's too bad
                    Originally posted by Lye In Your Eye
                    you're pretty narcissistic
                    enjoy that, nobody else does.
                    Originally posted by Madklikor
                    You call me ignorant? LOL...Stop judging right you or you're gonna find me

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                    • #11
                      Re: offensive words

                      If you're offended, Ars, it's your own damn fault.

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                      • #12
                        Re: offensive words

                        You just said you don't agree with Lye. What a traitor!
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                        Originally posted by TheRuleofThree
                        Very well - you caught me in a rare mistake. I commend you for achieving this elite honor.

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                        • #13
                          Re: offensive words

                          When my own words are used against me, what else can I do?

                          I have to backpedal and deny! It's the American way!

                          Why do you hate America?

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                          • #14
                            Re: offensive words

                            Fuck offensive words...they don't even exist!

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                            • #15
                              Re: offensive words

                              Skip to about 4 mins...
                              I SAID IT!!!
                              Originally posted by Ars Sycro
                              I have a type. I like hot bitches.

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