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Originally Posted by CrazyPhuD
Actually the most idiotic thing is the fact that people who are offended think the appropriate action is to try to change someone else.
You choose to be offended, it is entirely within your power to choose NOT to be offended.
People seem not to realize that that is quite frankly one of the most powerful things we have. If people choose to stop being 'offended' by an 'offensive' word then is it still offensive? Or did the people who choose NOT to be offended just take the power away from the word in question?
People don't need to be rescued by someone or something else, people need to be empowered to know that they can save themselves.
If someone has the power to offend you then they have the power to control your actions. You have to take that power back and learn to let it go.
You can live your life being offended at all things and be useless or you can ignore it and SHOW the people that they are wrong. If someone wants to think like a bigot then well they're wrong and people are allowed to be wrong(note actions are an entirely different issue than words).
To this day I will never understand why people think words have power. They never do and they never will. You give words power and you can take it back.
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This is a great post and it's even more relevant in this case where no offense is intended in the first place. Any offense taken is manufactured entirely in the mind of the offendee.