@perfect_blue said:
@ad1x2 said:
@Mercenary848 said:
You have the demeanor and communication skills of a teenage girl. You can't refute my point and it made your brain hurt, so regressed to your default status of making a childish retort. This new board really attracted a lot of idiots, and you are vying for front seat on the short bus n64.
While I understand that he likes to troll, your statement about it being other people's fault for choosing to be offended is debatable. For example, consider a situation where a white nationalist refers to black people as the N word. The First Amendment says that it is perfectly legal, but would you suggest that a black person has no right to be offended because the white nationalist was nonviolent when he called black people that?
Yes, I realize that for some people, the flag is meaningless to them and they would probably ask how someone can be more offended over disrespecting the flag or kneeling during the National Anthem versus someone using a racial slur. However, while a flag may be meaningless to someone that has issues with race relations in America, another person that is patriotic may be deeply offended by it. Them being deeply offended doesn't mean they are racist, and both the disrespect of the flag and the racial slur offends them.
You're comparing people kneeling during the national anthem to calling a black person the N word?
This may be the silliest hot take I've read on this subject so far, holy shit.
Read the purpose of the reply and try not to get stuck on the N-word versus flag/National Anthem disrespect comparison you put in your response. Or, you can read my second reply to him after he questioned my original response.
The whole point of my reply to him was that his original post (which you didn't quote) that stated we should blame the person who is offended for not having thicker skin, instead of blaming the person that performed the offensive action for offending the target, is something that I disagreed with.
Just like a patriotic person is probably going to be offended when someone intentionally disrespects their country (regardless of whether or not they agree with others having the right to do it), a black person is probably going to be offended if a person says the N word for the purpose of offending black people. The word doesn't even have to be said out of racism on behalf of the person who said it; they could be singing along with a rap song and still be accused of being racist.
Despite that, it seems like it's okay to call someone a snowflake for being offended over intentionally disrespecting the country, regardless of what it means to them, but if someone here tried to call someone a snowflake for being offended over a racial slur, chances are the person saying that would be universally condemned and accused of being racist themselves.
For your information, as a black man, it would greatly offend me if some racist was openly using the N word to refer to his or her problems with black people. As an American that actually cares about my country, it offends me when people intentionally disrespects the flag or National Anthem, especially when their reasons are to defy one man, especially when some of the people disrespecting it are doing it not because of police corruption like it was originally done for, but as a result of their most recent symptoms of TDS.
You don't have to pick which one offends you, both can be offensive to you, although one can offend you more than the other. I also have the ability to realize that both are protected by the First Amendment, and in exchange for the ability for me to say what I want without being charged with a crime, I also have to be able to accept that others will have the ability to say what they want even if I don't want to hear it. I don't have a right to not be offended, I just have a right to have a nonviolent disagreement with them.
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