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Thread #134052   Message #3053301
Posted By: Backwoodsman
14-Dec-10 - 10:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Racial Slurs in Quotations
Subject: RE: BS: Racial Slurs in Quotations
No, not angry for that reason, Grishka, in fact not angry at all.

But I do get very frustrated when people seek to find 'offence' where there is none, and Patsy's assertion very much read as though this was the case here. Whilst I'm very much against racism, sexism, ageism, every '-ism' where there is discrimination of any kind, I do believe there's a paranoia in society today which drives some people to see 'offence' where none exists - hence my phrase 'perverted thought processes', viz. "Pot calling kettle black - must be offensive to black people", when it's nothing of the sort. Completely false logic, a knee-jerk reaction to the use of the word 'black' in a perfectly innocent way.

Seems to me there's a danger of 'offence overload' happening, where people get so used to hearing about others' constant perception of 'offence' in everything they see and hear, that they become desensitized and fail to recognise where genuine 'offence' takes place.

IMHO. YMMV, and that's your prerogative.