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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Claiming offense is nothing more than a rhetorical trick for putting someone else on the defensive, for getting the advantage and pressing for some concession; nowadays the concession usually involves a payment of money to the one claiming offense.


8 posted on 09/19/2016 8:09:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Claiming offense is nothing more than a rhetorical trick for putting someone else on the defensive, for getting the advantage and pressing for some concession; nowadays the concession usually involves a payment of money to the one claiming offense.

So true. Just a manipulation technique.

It would blow someone's mind to tell them that youi don't care if they are offended.

16 posted on 09/19/2016 9:08:50 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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