The offended vs. the offenders
The American Thinker has a must read piece on the offensiveness of taking offense.
Surely you've noticed how often the left is offended by this or that and then suddenly the so-called offender is coerced, at the very minimum, to apologize and, of course, stop the offensive behavior as if there was a God-given right to not be offended.
What a brilliant ploy to silence unpopular (politically incorrect) speech. It's been a most successful tactic, but it needs to be exposed for what it is. It's nothing more than a clever, if not diabolical, means to silence the opposition. Because those who would be silenced are generally polite and don't wish to offend, this ploy has been extremely successful.
It needn't be. People who are offended need to be dismissed, not coddled. They need to be told to get a life. They need to know that they have no right to not be offended and if, in fact, they are offended, they have empowered the offender by putting him in a controlling position over their life. They have given someone else power over their own life to put them in an offended frame of mind. They need to be told to get over it. The offended are the ones with the problem, not the so-called offenders.
Read the piece...it's good!
Surely you've noticed how often the left is offended by this or that and then suddenly the so-called offender is coerced, at the very minimum, to apologize and, of course, stop the offensive behavior as if there was a God-given right to not be offended.
What a brilliant ploy to silence unpopular (politically incorrect) speech. It's been a most successful tactic, but it needs to be exposed for what it is. It's nothing more than a clever, if not diabolical, means to silence the opposition. Because those who would be silenced are generally polite and don't wish to offend, this ploy has been extremely successful.
It needn't be. People who are offended need to be dismissed, not coddled. They need to be told to get a life. They need to know that they have no right to not be offended and if, in fact, they are offended, they have empowered the offender by putting him in a controlling position over their life. They have given someone else power over their own life to put them in an offended frame of mind. They need to be told to get over it. The offended are the ones with the problem, not the so-called offenders.
Read the piece...it's good!
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