Since “we” are too “civil” to respond to the whiners:
“I’m offended by your stupidity!”
There are two main reasons that some people get their way with “I’m offended.”
1) They belong to a group that blows things up and cuts off people’s heads, and whose ultimate goal is the suppression of Christianity.
2) They belong to a group whose behavior is incompatible with Christianity, and tolerance of which will eventually require the suppression of Christianity.
Part of the wussification process. Millions of people toiled away to build our once-great civilization over centuries - for the most part rather stoically.
Lawyers & legislators need us to be whiners so they can glom off the system.
If politicians can use it to get money and votes, expect it to be supported.
I’m really offended by the Furgeson trash
Never before have so many had so much for so little effort. And appreciated it less.
I used to get offended a lot... then I grew up.
Being sensitive about feeling inadequate (by definition, the state of adolescence) will cause you to feel offended a lot.
The civil rights movement demonstrated that there is power in victimhood. And where there’s power, there’s money.
Worse, the power of victimhood isn’t proportional to the “offense” and it isn’t allocated logically or consistently. Queers get to be offended because a Bible-believing baker won’t endorse their perversion by baking them a cake. But social conservatives aren’t allowed to be offended at a “gay pride” parade when presented with the stomach-turning spectacle of a 300-pound hairy crossdresser simulating fellatio on a man dressed as Pinnochio.
So the question becomes, who parcels out this power, what is its nature, and under what criteria is it allocated? And ultimately, to what end?
I’m offended by lying politicians who think voters are idiots whom they can fool to preserve their cushy living.
A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”S. Crane
Apparently it depends on who is offended. If you or I are offended, that’s just because we’re bigots, racists, homophobes, etc. If one of the protected classes is offended then there is a terrible hew and cry. It must be our fault and we need big government to immediately step in, slap us down, and issues some laws/regulations to ensure that the precious little darlings never get their feelers hurt again. PC liberals make me sick.
The problem is natural selection no longer exists on so many fronts now.
Whining and parasitic behaviors are now subsidized.
Well I’m offended at:
The amount of illgals entering our country and not working, yet getting things that we have spend our lives working for.
I don’t like the “headgear” of some people that enter our country and think we need to do what they want, when they want it, and how they want it.
How our government leaders are so stupid and everyone with any common sense can see it, yet there are those who keep kissing their a$$s to keep them in office.
I could go on, but you get the picture, yes I am offended everyday, but it doesn’t seem to matter because we are Americans and they have to have it ‘their’ way.
It’s OK to offend people, just not liberals.