Posted on 07/26/2003 9:02:24 AM PDT by Texas Mom
Being offended is a substitute for thinking
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- BEING OFFENDED means never having to answer an argument.
The conversation went something like this. Caller: "I want you to know your column on drug legalization offended me."
Me: "Let me get this straight. Because I said drugs are soul-deadening and far too lethal to legalize, you were offended?"
Caller: "That's right. It made me want to hurl."
Charming, the way these Gen-Xers express themselves. I don't hear this more than a few dozen times a week: "I'm offended." "I'm deeply offended." "I was really offended." "I found your column very offensive."
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
Really? Can you give an example?
Really? Can you give an example?
Glad you asked. From http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/feder101399.asp:
'"I hate to say it, but the majority of people who use drugs use them responsibly," the Republican [New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson] told a student audience. Clearly, Johnson hasn't spent much time in prisons, rehab centers, homeless shelters, emergency rooms or the seedier sections of our inner-cities.'
The fact that there are more than a few irresponsible drug users in no way disproves Gov. Johnson's statement.
I did---the falsehood I cited is just the first of many.
Actually, it is "All your base are belong to us". Look it up if you don't believe me.
I hope not.
It's a language thing and is so embedded in our controlling social system that we can't think any other way. Being offended simply cements the regulatory system in place. It's not just the schools, but politicians, advertisers, and employers who have bought into the use of language as control. Attempts to break out of the controlling language are also absorbed into the system, so there is no 'outside' to this universe. It is self-contained, including protests, self-perpetuating, consuming everything like a black hole, and no one has the moxie to break out for long. Could be worse: Arabs let this happen to their language 1000 years ago and they are so cut off it's like their universe bubble cannot be reached from outside and they cannot communicate to the outside; they live in a totally different universe with different physical laws and always will.
The Preview button, hon. Learn to use it.
I have said almost the same thing since we lived in Morocco in the early seventies. They think and reason totally opposite of how we reason. I often wonder what our government means when they say they are negotiating with Arabs. I don't know how it can be done. Their whole thought process is so far out there I would think it is impossible.
(sarcasm) Hon!?...
Are you trying to come on to me?
It sure is. Word mean things and the PC crowd is constantly changing words and meaning to suit their agenda... We get it stuffed down our throats by the media and if our kids are trained to their liking they'll get them in college.
There's a danger right there. Formerly, words meant things and concepts, where concepts did not carry the predicates. But now predicates, operations, are built into words so you have a new thing with only onebuilt-in process and there are no true concepts, only things. The full meanings of words have been kidnapped so the protest is automatically incorporated in the system. Left, Right, Liberal, Conservative, FR, none of these are a danger to the forces of societal evolution because their entire activity is already part of the system. No tension between Aristotelian is and dialectic ought to be means rebellion is impossible. The rational negative is gone, or more correctly, is no longer historical.
RE-LEGALIZE
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