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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8320029" data-attributes="member: 7023887">No, you're wrong. This is the &quot;the offended people are choosing to be offended&quot; BS claim that's been around as long as &quot;I'm offended by this&quot; claims have been. Whether or not the &quot;I'm offended by this&quot; claim is true, &quot;you're choosing to be offended by this&quot; is always an incorrect response. Always. You cannot be fake-offended/&quot;choose to be offended&quot;. You can pretend to be offended. You can look for offensive things in something. However, telling someone that &quot;you're not actually offended by this, and if you are, you're the racist&quot; is wrong, especially when the people who are seeing the offense by something are the people that the language that is being used to describe that thing are parallels to language used to disparage their cultural/racial group in the past.This is essentially the &quot;Uno Reverse Card&quot; of this issue. For as long as people have been raising concerns about this issue, people have also been saying &quot;No u!&quot; right back at them. And this isn't going to change until either of the following happens:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The people getting offended by the issue/raising awareness about the issue stop speaking about it. </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The people who say &quot;No, u!&quot; start actually trying to be in the shoes of the people who are offended by the issue, and empathize with their offense. </li>
</ol>Option 1 should not happen, because no one should have to be quiet about their pain just because others don't like admitting that their pain is real, and Option 2 can happen, but the people who act that way are almost always quickly replaced by other ignorant people that share the same viewpoints as they did.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8320029, member: 7023887"] No, you're wrong. This is the "the offended people are choosing to be offended" BS claim that's been around as long as "I'm offended by this" claims have been. Whether or not the "I'm offended by this" claim is true, "you're choosing to be offended by this" is always an incorrect response. Always. You cannot be fake-offended/"choose to be offended". You can pretend to be offended. You can look for offensive things in something. However, telling someone that "you're not actually offended by this, and if you are, [I]you're the racist[/I]" is wrong, especially when the people who are seeing the offense by something are the people that the language that is being used to describe that thing are parallels to language used to disparage their cultural/racial group in the past. This is essentially the "Uno Reverse Card" of this issue. For as long as people have been raising concerns about this issue, people have also been saying "No u!" right back at them. And this isn't going to change until either of the following happens: [LIST=1] [*]The people getting offended by the issue/raising awareness about the issue stop speaking about it. [*]The people who say "No, u!" start actually trying to be in the shoes of the people who are offended by the issue, and empathize with their offense. [/LIST] Option 1 should not happen, because no one should have to be quiet about their pain just because others don't like admitting that their pain is real, and Option 2 can happen, but the people who act that way are almost always quickly replaced by other ignorant people that share the same viewpoints as they did. [/QUOTE]

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