Why do people get so easily offended?
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Why are you easily offended about others being offended?\n\nSee, it all has to do with view point. Another thing I notice is that a lot of people on yahoo Answers do not know how to pose questions. You can say the same thing in two different ways, one way is a questions, if you say it another it's an attack. \n\nRealize too that this isn't face to face contact, perhaps if someone was listening to you they'd realize it wasn't offensive, but we don't have that ability here.\n\nWhy not do your best to be polite, and this way you won't worry so much about anyone who has been offended.
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Peoples' silly "sensitivities" are so easily bruised.  \n\nBTW: Your answer about "diving in" was amusing!
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That's a good question!  It may be because white people are trying to make up for our ancestors' mistakes and cruelties by standing by when our own race is ridiculed.  I think that reasoning is stupid, but oh well.\n\nI'm personally not offended when black comedians tell jokes about white people.  I know we do some pretty weird things, but it's not so obvious to us.  So when they point it out, I can laugh and say, "Yeah, I do that.", have a good chuckle out of it and feel flattered that they thought enough of my race to make a joke out of it.  I firmly believe that an inability to laugh at oneself shows intense insecurity.\n\nOf course, another reason why it may be acceptable for blacks to joke about whites but not the other way around is because white people are in the political majority at this time.  Most of the people in power are white Christian men.  Whenever someone is considered the majority, it's okay for other groups to joke about them.  Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but there it is.
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It's suppose to be tongue-in-cheek humour, but, yes, some people may find it quite offensive. It's a stereotypical view of some of the ethic groups.
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^ ? ^  yes, there are many people like that. i never really cared for people that take themselves so seriously, and are so narcissistic, that they assume the most innocuous statements are insults about themselves. however, it could be a simple matter of low self esteem that a person would even assume that a general statement made is an insult directed toward them. i guess it boosts their already overinflated sense of self worth to think that people would deem them important enough to even insult them.
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I am VERY sick of being politically correct. Everyone seems so sensitive, women, blacks, Mexicans, gays, everyone. Funny the only people we never have to be sensitive to is White Christian Men, because they can be ripped on all the time. Funny how that works.
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You will find silly people all through life! People sometimes just have terrible dispositions, and I don't know why! I think that people on here know that you don't know them, and they will never truly have to explain why they act the way they do. Therefore, they can be as rude as they want, and no one will ever know it was them. I don't take the website too seriously, but I respect people, and give honest answers. It would be nice if everyone played fair, but that isn't likely. I hope you have a good day, and try to have fun!
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Shhh! Don't speak so loudly, someone might hear you and get offended...
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I had a question deleted that asked what people's favorite insults were.  Maybe I've lost all sense of appropriateness but it seemed innocent enough to me.  Maybe they got me cause I said a**.  Ewww.  There are a lot of babies out there.  Becoming offended these days is like an automatic win.  Oh, my god. Your offended?\nWell, we better hop to and fix everything so it is agreeble with you.  It's rubbish.  Lots of thin-skinned people out there. If you don't like the question go somewhere else. That's my take on it.
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I'm offended by hyper-sensitivity.
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Most people are just stupid I think. That about covers it. They like to assume stuff cuz they like to be upset. But sometimes the questions people ask in that area come really close to being disrespectfull themselves. So it's easy to see how people can get pissed off and say stuff about the asker. Some people aren't smart enough to put their answeres into words that make the asker look like the totall idiot they are, without directly insulting them. So they just insult them instead.  The mere knowledge next to idiocy exposes it for what it is, but not everyone has that.
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Funny jokes!  Thanks.\n\nIf you are offending anyone you might as well quit telling jokes or passing them along.\n\nNo matter who the joke is about, or what it is about, or where it is about, someone is going to be offended.  \n\nIf people quit telling jokes because they were worried about offending something, there wouldn't be any more jokes.\n\nYou can't please them all, so just go ahead and post them, and let the chips fall where they may.\n\nCheck out the webpage below. (and my profile)
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They are uncomfortable with your differences.  Sensitive people are easy to hurt and there lots of people out there who have fun hurting other's feelings.\n\nIt's difficult but necessary to become less sensitive.  Over time being exposed to the insensitivity of others will harden you.
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I don't offend.  It's a free country.  People can say whatever they want to say and think whatever they want to think. Something can only be offensive if one doesn't allow for other people's thought and feelings and fervently believes that any view other than their own is wrong and therefore is offensive.
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We do the same as blacks tell people they should not be sensitive, or I'm just joking when it comes to racism or cultural situations.\n\n/doc
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Its the people....they are irritating.  Usually
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SOME religious people get easily offended because they were convinced by their church that they have THE truth. So they cannot conceive that other people are saying something different.\n\nI think that sometimes people are offended because they realise that others are telling a truth that they are not capable of accepting yet. I'm glad these people get offended, because that means that in the near future, they might get free from the ties of religion.