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02-22-2008, 05:20 PM | #22 |
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It seems to me that one should be able to recognize a comment as offensive without actually being offended. Otherwise, you would feel no restraint in parroting any of that nonsense.
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02-22-2008, 05:22 PM | #23 |
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You are officially a racist. Not necessarily an aggressive "hate" racist--but a racist all the same.
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Hey if you choose to take offense, that's your problem. I'm not going to let some ignorant comments made by some dude 125 years ago offend me. It simply isn't worth it. |
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Those would be some of the many reasons I would "feel restraint in parroting any of that nonsense". |
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02-22-2008, 05:25 PM | #27 | |
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Laughable, ignorant, stupid - but certainly not offensive. But nice try. |
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02-22-2008, 05:27 PM | #29 |
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Obviously one can choose not to be offended by something, but like Woot brought up that doesn't make a comment un-offensive. I'm not easily offended but much either, but I can't understand how a black or an American Indian or homosexual would feel about those comments.
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