@evil_akuma_2002 wrote:
@gleee58 wrote:
We draw the line where it hurts or insults other people. We stopped calling dark people sooty when they told us it is offensive to them. We stopped calling deaf people dumb because it is not true. We don't call people with hyphenated names two dads because it is a hideous insult. We don't give call someone spaz because they walk with a funny gait.
We just treat people with a bit of respect and consideration instead of lambasting, mocking and name calling because of their differing opinion.
And no, the so called outrage bus has been invented to shut people up. Not people that were whinging but people who were making jokes and laughing about the hideousness of the argument or statement. It's the teasing and laughing at that got some of the newscorpse writers and friends started with the outrage bus nonsense because they were getting laughed at and couldn't handle it.
Then if that's the case, we as a species need to cease communication with each other immediately - as there's always someone, somewhere, who takes almost anything as an insult - or take offense. And we can't have that, can we?
It's all very well to say that we draw the line where it begins to hurt others - but given that so many are hurt by so little, where exactly do we draw that line?
Sorry, but it's getting a little too blurry for me.
Well no, it's through the open discussion of these issues that people learn what is offensive, insulting or hurtful to other poeple and the reason it is offensive, then with time we (most of us) change some of our attitudes and words out of respect for others. It's generally not such little issues that people have taken offence to.
They might sound like little issues to some but if they've become an issue they are obviously not little to others. One person taking offence doesn't cause a mob of people to become offended for them.
Women who have been accused of jumping on the outrage bus over some of abbott's comments are not reacting because someone told them to or on behalf of someone else, they just get sick of the stupid everyday sexism they experience with far too much regularity.
