Posted on 10/20/2005 8:23:42 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
Are you easily offended? Does your little ego bruise easily? Do you think everyone else in America ought to give a darn about your self-esteem? Do your eyes fill with tears every time you perceive someone is being insensitive to you? Do you live under the delusional belief that you should be protected against being offended? Do you believe that anytime you are offended someone should be fired; have their life ruined or character trashed?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions you need to shut up, grow up, stop throwing your little pity parties and get a life! Frankly, you and those like you are a major part of what is wrong with America today. Your constant carping and whining are adding nothing positive to this great nation. Instead, the climate of perpetual offendedness and hypersensitivity you are creating is sapping the great spirit of rugged individualism that made America the greatest nation to ever exist in this world’s history.
Think for a moment if the Founding Fathers had been the type of wimpy whiners so many Americans are today? There would be no America would there? Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and the rest would have been so busy filing discrimination suits and attending counseling sessions that they would have never gotten around to the business of creating a new nation.
How very pathetic these maddening wimpy attitudes are! So many in America think every thing and everyone should bend, change and alter their standards and rules so as not to exclude or offend them. How else do we explain the phenomenon of those who want to join the Boy Scouts, but ONLY if the Scouts change their rules to accommodate their over inflated sense of self-importance? Look if you are an Atheist and saying the Scouts pledge bothers you, you have a choice. You can either say the pledge and not believe a word of it, or you can start your own scouting group.
Yes! Yes! Yes! You could actually stop feeling sorry for yourself, start a scouting organization, and leave the Boy Scouts alone. Oh but that is not good enough. You, the offended feel an insatiable need to force your views onto the Boy Scouts. After all, it is all about you, your ego and your little feelings isn’t it.
If you happen to pass by a Confederate cemetery in a sleepy Southern town and see a Confederate flag or a statue of a Confederate soldier and are offended by it what do you, the offended do? Drive on, thinking that you disagree with those symbols but recognize that the descendants of those soldiers deserve their piece of history? Oh no, not you! You begin ranting about racism and lynchings, start threatening lawsuits, and demand those symbols disappear!
Why would you take such an absurd stance? Well because you are offended, that is why. It should not matter that by ripping down those symbols you are spitting on the graves of those heroic soldiers and their families. It should not matter that you are erasing history and fomenting ignorance! To Hell with history you are offended and nothing else matters does it?
You, the easily offended, see a manger scene, or possibly a monument with the Ten Commandments on it. A mentally well-adjusted person, even if they were an Atheist, would pass by and think nothing of it. Not you though! Oh, no!
You are just looking to get offended so off you go. You dial your local ACLU attorney, who of course you have on speed dial, and start crying like the spineless jellyfish you are.
How dare any mention of anything even remotely resembling anything religious enter your hypersensitive field of vision? Someone has to pay for this act of treason against your all-important ego. Let the lawsuits begin! Christmas parade? Not in your presence by George! Is that an angel you see? Better not be, lest someone suffer your wrath! Moreover, Heaven help anyone who dares to even think about singing a Christmas carol in school! You are Offendedsauras and you will crush them under your hypersensitive feet!
Let some teacher dare to teach a child what the word niggardly means. Just let them try that! You and your egomaniacal cohorts will never allow that! Never mind the fact that the word niggardly means nothing racial at all. It means stingy or begrudging, but that does not matter a bit does it?
It sounds like another word, the infamous “N” word! So because it sounds like a racial slur children may not even be taught about it! How very brilliant you easily offended types are. You would rather have children grow up ignorant and offended than educated and not offended. You would rather erase words from the dictionary than explain their meanings to children.
So let us be very clear here. The hypersensitive folks who we always hear bellyaching about how someone or something has upset their emotional applecart have an agenda -- to force their delusional, twisted and intellectually bankrupt ideals upon the rest of us. Are we going to put up with that? Are we willing to have every word we utter controlled by their standards? I don't think so!
Now then, to any of the easily offended sorts who are currently pulling their hair out, hyperventilating and pounding out the ACLU phone number out while reading this -- a very heartfelt message from me...
If my column has, in any way offended you, or hurt your feelings, or caused you emotional duress or has forced you to seek therapy, let me say: "GOOD!"
But I still would happily kill this author on general principal.
Doubtful, I tend to keep most of my opinions to myself. Since I believe that I'm legally correct about the religious side of things, I don't see any need to argue my views in court; society will come around to my way of thinking in the fullness of time. As for the Confederate flag, I've found that it's just not worth arguing about.
I have no argument with this article. This "Tyranny of the Offended" is not only offensive, it is increasingly institutionlizing the needs of the marginally insane.
Enough is enough. End it now.
Are women required to wear hoop-skirts in this new Confederacy? If so, I'm there!
OMG! This is worthy of bookmarking, printing, papering cars in parking lots, pinning on bulletin boards, taping to neighbors doors....
Nah, I wouldn't do most of that (evil grin)
I hope I don't offend the author, but I really agree with the article.
The Constitution says, "Congress shall make no law...". Whether or not equal time is given to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc. is up to the community. There is no law that says a manger scene must co-exist with a menora. If society comes around to your way of thinking it will only be because of activist judges and ill informed citizens misinterpreting the constitution.
Your statement about the Confederate flag just demonstrates an ignorance of and a disdain for history.
The column is addressed to you not so much because you may or may not be vocal about your opinions, it is because you are the type of person to say, "That is ok, as long as...". That is exactly where the society of the offended gets it's start.
"self-esteem is a vice"
WHAT ..?? And .. if you attempt to explain, keep it short and in normal human language please. I don't agree with your statement.
Ok,
to me,
self esteem is what keeps you from slitting your wrists, makes you try to save yourself and helps you survive horrific circumstances.
Self-centeredness is what makes you easily offended.
It's not self esteem that makes people get all pissy and offended, it's the 'I'mthecenteroftheuniverse' attitude that causes all this PC crap to get out of hand.
Soap box back under the desk...
Pot roast for lunch,
Later darlin'.
This collumn allmost litteraly describes the Dutch, I think I'll put up a translation of it on my dutch blog.
Kudo's to the author for describing a trend that has been irritating the hell out of me for a couple of years now.
Glad you pointed it out! Thanks!
Bump for closer read later.
BTTT. A classic article that should be required reading for anyone and everyone!
Two words: Dixie Chicks.
I see. So from your point of view it should be perfectly possible for me to ban Jews and Catholics from my country club if that's what the majority of my "community" wanted. Tell me that I wouldn't lose my shirt in court.
Your statement about the Confederate flag just demonstrates an ignorance of and a disdain for history.
I had a friend in college who had more than a passing interest in the mythology and symbols of India. He often lamented that when he wore a swastika necklace around, people thought that he was some kind of Nazi. An odd East Indian Nazi, but a Nazi nonetheless. I finally told him one day that to him the swastika was a symbol of luck, but to almost eveybody else in the world it meant Hitler.
To you, that flag means some kind of heritage thing, to me (and to a lot of other people) it means slavery.
Really? How does this violate the establishment clause? How is this going against Congress shall pass no law? Is this a law that congress passed, saying we have to join the scouts and embrace religion, I don't think so. You are one of the whiners this article is talking about, offended and making believe there is a seperation of church and state clause hidden somewhere in the constitution. I am not religious but I recognize constitutional violations when I see them and this ain't it!
You sound much like a Dem or any other socialist, marxist, communist, liberal, progressive(I hope I got the name you prefer, else you might feel offended, like I give a crap). Have a nice day.
bump for later reading
Absolutely. Ban whomever you want from your organization, it's your right to do so. That you might lose your shirt in court is emblematic of the cultural shift this article is lamenting. Just because today's society will see you lose your shirt in court, does not make it right and it definitely should not be acceptable.
Again, your comments about the Confederate flag demonstrate your, and others, complete misunderstanding of history. Your dislike and misunderstanding of the Confederate flag should not prevent others from displaying it. Protests about it are just busybodies trying to impose their will on others.
I'm curious, what is your opinion of those who protest the American flag as either offensive or a symbol of hate?
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