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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RareBreed" data-source="post: 9107631" data-attributes="member: 6945590">In martial arts, one of the things they stress is to not let your opponent control your emotions.  If he has, he has won half the battle already.  But this statement goes to my earlier point: where do you draw the line between hate speech and disagreement?One of my middle names is Arabic (I have Muslim relatives, because where my mother comes from is the Islamic region of the Philippines).  Right after 9/11, I got pulled aside at airports, for extra screening...supposedly "at random".  Was I being profiled?  Probably.  Did it offend me?  No it didn't.  But, I also understand why that action was taken (even if they are at least partially misguided).As I've gotten older, I realize that whether I become offended, outraged, or emotionally distraught is on me.  There will always be people who don't like you for whatever reason.  Worse, no amount of logical argument or "fact checking" will change some people's minds.  Trying to force them to not say what you want to hear is not only impossible, it is inherently hypocritical.  Because what you say may be considered offensive to someone else, whether you realize it or not.So the burden of responsibility of being emotionally distraught should be on the listener, not the speaker.  Yes, this is difficult.  I should also note the difference between anger and angry.  It requires a level of tolerance, patience, maturity and understanding that is hard to come by.  If people say ask me what ethnicity or race I am, it does not offend me.  It's a natural question.  We develop heuristics, or shortcuts in thinking, that fit "the normal".  Having to step on eggshells to make sure what we say doesn't offend is backfiring.  While I find WoTC's handling of this somewhat racist, I also give them the benefit of the doubt that<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They may have had good intentions (though we know what the road to hell is paved with....)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They just didn't think about it</li> </ul></blockquote>

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