>> Why did you bring it up then? Was it your goal to disparage Christians?
Heh. No it wasn’t to “disparage Christians”. I am a Christian, genius. My faith has been singled out as offensive to gay people ... even declared “hate speech” by a few especially offended people.
I brought it up as an example to show that someone being offended doesn’t create “hate speech”. Thought you might be able to relate better if you identified with the accused rather than the accuser. Honestly, I think “hate speech” is a generally stupid concept to begin with.
>> You don’t even realize you’re part of the problem. You’ve been so desensitized by political correctness that you [...]
Part of what problem?
Do you even understand what political correctness is? Political correctness doesn’t desensitize people, it over-sensitizes them. That’s the whole point of political correctness — to have people so scared-to-death of offending someone that they’ll stifle themselves. For example, to have Christians scared to speak for fear of offending the homosexuals, or the Muslims, or the atheists, or whomever.
I won’t join a crusade to require people to bow at the alter of the non-offensive. Today, we silence John Stewart for being offensive. Tomorrow, the gay lobby silences us for the same reason.
>> [...] haven’t a clue what it means to be offended.
Huh? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. I know what it means to be offended. Just because I’m offended doesn’t mean the guy who offended me is guilty of “hate speech”.
Nobody has the right to demand not to be offended.
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“Heh. No it wasn’t to “disparage Christians”. I am a Christian, genius.”
Yea well, sure...if you say so. Why the problem defending your faith then?
It is true that someone taking offense does not constitute hate speech. Your problem is you think the rot coming from Stewart isn’t hate speech because he hasn’t called for the Christians to be thrown to the lions.
“I won’t join a crusade to require people to bow at the alter of the non-offensive.
A crusade now, is it? Bow at the altar, (fixed it for you), of the non-offensive?
Get a grip.
“Today, we silence John Stewart for being offensive. Tomorrow, the gay lobby silences us for the same reason.”
Again with the gay thing. Stay on point...we’re talking about Jon Stewart, not the gay lobby. There’s a difference between silencing and accountability.
You will never “get it.”
You probably don’t know when to come in out of the rain either.