{"id":764,"date":"2015-08-25T06:58:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T11:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=764"},"modified":"2017-01-31T08:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T13:22:01","slug":"a-plague-of-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"A ‘plague of offense’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been seeing posts and articles claiming that “everyone is offended these days,” with the implication, at least, that everyone should just get over themselves. I agree to a point, but I also think that some of this is a passive-aggressive way of saying “stop pointing out that I’m a bigot.”<\/p>\n

Here’s my take on the ‘plague of offense’ that we’re apparently suffering through. Subject to revision\/refinement as I think this through…<\/p>\n

I don’t expect to get through the day without being offended
\n(I’ll try not to whine about it beyond posting a snarky comment).<\/p>\n

I don’t expect to get through the day without offending anyone, but I don’t go out of my way to do so. I think people who do are just showing that they’re jerks. If I cross the line from expressing an opinion to being deliberately offensive, call me out on it.<\/p>\n

My “being offended” is different from pointing out discrimination and bullying behavior. If you think that you can silence me by telling me to quit being easily offended, you’re wrong.<\/p>\n

There are problems that won’t go away by being ignored; if someone points out racism, sexism, or any other social issue that they think is a problem, don’t imagine you can shut them up by claiming that they just need to grow a thick skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been seeing posts and articles claiming that “everyone is offended these days,” with the implication, at least, that everyone should just get over themselves. I agree to a point, but I also think that some of this is a passive-aggressive way of saying “stop pointing out that I’m a bigot.” Here’s my take on … Continue reading “A ‘plague of offense’?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophizing","category-social-commentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-ck","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":121,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=121","url_meta":{"origin":764,"position":0},"title":"Tsunami Editorial Cartoons","author":"Jorah","date":"December 30, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I expect that a lot of cartoonists are trying to find a way to deal with this event sensitively. 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