Are you easily offended?

[claws]

When people are pimping or pushing their religion and believes on others. I find that offending for personal reasons.
And yeah, I'm easily offended by Lady GaGa. So much that I joined a forum where I can go primitive on her. Gloating has never been so redeeming!
Other than that nothing bothers me 

[Mofo Rising]

I've spent the last twenty or so years of my life figuring out the exact line I can cross with people, and the stepping over that line and making them laugh. I have told jokes that, if you heard them, you would never forgive me for. That is not an exaggeration in the slightest.

However, I have always told these jokes with the understanding that it is between me and the person I am talking to. The sole basis of the joke is that it is so offensive that it would be ridiculous for anybody to think, let alone me. The humor lies in the pure offensiveness of the concept. It's understood that I don't think it, the person I'm telling to it doesn't think that, it's just WRONG.

So I am not easily offended.

That being said, it is the very rare person who tells the off-color, un-P.C., joke who thinks the same.

I hate, hate the term "political correctness." In my experience, the only people who use it are those who get angry that they can't spout the same hate-filled rhetoric they've spent their life professing.

I've told every racist, off-color joke I could ever think of, but I've told them to people who understand that they're awful because they are incredibly stupid, offensive, and WRONG. I'm immature, but I don't actually believe that garbage.

In my experience, though, the only people who are eager to tell you racist jokes want to tell you them because they are racist. Or ignorant. Or a***oles.

The basis is intent, and I have no patience for people who tell jokes out of maliciousness. They're easy to pick out, because they're pricks. I get very angry when I have to listen to them.

[retrorussell]

Arrogant people, people that don't shut up, stupid people that keep doing the same stupid things over and over again, and people that expect you to behave the way they want you to, offend me.  Other than that, I don't offend too easily.

[Joe the Destroyer]

I've spent the last twenty or so years of my life figuring out the exact line I can cross with people, and the stepping over that line and making them laugh. I have told jokes that, if you heard them, you would never forgive me for. That is not an exaggeration in the slightest.

However, I have always told these jokes with the understanding that it is between me and the person I am talking to. The sole basis of the joke is that it is so offensive that it would be ridiculous for anybody to think, let alone me. The humor lies in the pure offensiveness of the concept. It's understood that I don't think it, the person I'm telling to it doesn't think that, it's just WRONG.

So I am not easily offended.

That being said, it is the very rare person who tells the off-color, un-P.C., joke who thinks the same.

I hate, hate the term "political correctness." In my experience, the only people who use it are those who get angry that they can't spout the same hate-filled rhetoric they've spent their life professing.

I've told every racist, off-color joke I could ever think of, but I've told them to people who understand that they're awful because they are incredibly stupid, offensive, and WRONG. I'm immature, but I don't actually believe that garbage.

In my experience, though, the only people who are eager to tell you racist jokes want to tell you them because they are racist. Or ignorant. Or a***oles.

The basis is intent, and I have no patience for people who tell jokes out of maliciousness. They're easy to pick out, because they're pricks. I get very angry when I have to listen to them.

Yeah, I'd say that description fits me almost perfectly.  My take on offensive jokes is more that they're a parody of the line of thinking (i.e. racism, misogyny, etc.) than a joke against someone.  But using said jokes to outright offend someone is just stupid.  I generally try to gauge someone's offensive scope before I just jump in and say anything. 

[Derf]

As long as people just shut up and acknowledge my natural superiority, I'm difficult to offend. 

I would agree that it is the intent of the statement, not the statement itself that offends. Racist/sexist jokes? Not an issue unless, as has been stated, the one telling them believes them to be truisms. Opinions? Everyone has them, and they are entitled to them. In some situations, they are entitled to express them as forcefully as they wish. I'm not obligated to accept them, however, nor to acknowledge their opinion as right.

Now let me have a shot at being offensive to some: I'm a philosopher by nature, and I watch people closely. Several people have stated that they are offended/turned off/ticked off when someone tries to "force" his or her religion on them. I personally don't believe you can "force" religion on anyone; if religious belief is not embraced by the believer, it is not really a religious belief. That said, those who want the religious person to keep silent are, in practice, "forcing" their beliefs on the religious person. If it is an evangelical's belief that it is necessary to share the gospel (I'm using Christianity as an example here, but it works with any attempted religious proselytization), then the non-religious person who doesn't want to be bothered with it is under no obligation to "believe." However, by endorsing the attitude that "faith should be between an individual and his God," he is in effect telling the evangelical that his belief system has to conform to the non-believer's code of behavior. This is "forcing" belief on someone just as much as saying that Jesus wants you to be saved is. There are some religious people who are far too pushy for polite society. What I'm pointing out is that there are equally pushy "non-believers" who are trying to force the religious to go against their beliefs. In a perfect world, we would all be polite, and when someone says, "No, I'm not interested in hearing about your faith," the religious person would be respectful of that. Likewise, the non-religious person would not expect the religious person to "just shut up."

Peace, love and pancakes for all! 

[Nukie 2]

I hate it when poor people are stereotyped as being lazy-- there are quite many who just don't understand how the system works, and some
who've tried all their life and fall behind.

I'm not right-wing, but I also hate it when left-wing people insult poor rural people who have a conservative mindset as being stupid rednecks.

[Flick James]

I hate it when poor people are stereotyped as being lazy-- there are quite many who just don't understand how the system works, and some
who've tried all their life and fall behind.

I'm not right-wing, but I also hate it when left-wing people insult poor rural people who have a conservative mindset as being stupid rednecks.

I think I understand what you mean, but you would probably think I'm a liberal who does just that. In reality, I insult most people, mainly because I'm a misanthrope who has a hard time taking most people seriously. Most liberals think I'm a Republican. It depends on the company I'm in.

You know what I don't understand? The conservative/liberal nomenclature. It doesn't really make any sense to me. If I had the power to dissolve the notions of converatism and liberalism, I would love it. Conservatives tend to identify themselves as Republicans. Republicans tend to believe, or claim to believe, in capitalism. Capitalism is, in terms of economic theory, identified literally as economic liberalism. So, I do believe in laissez-faire free-market capitalis, so therefore I am an economic liberal, because I believe in economic freedom. So, does that make me a conservative or a liberal? In reality, I'm a pretty centralized libertarian, in that I don't believe in the lines between economic and personal freedom, lines that what the status quo identify as "conservative" and "liberal" tend to draw with bold permanent markers. Freedom is freedom. I don't know, I treat with immediate suspicion anyone who identifies themselves as a liberal or a conservative, because right away they have told me that their beliefs are provided for them by other people, and whatever they say goes.

Take for example the Tea Party movement. I'm not entirely decided on how I feel about them, but what drives me nuts is that Republicans are hanging onto the movement, to the consternation of some of the Tea Party movement. These Republicans, who normally would object to grassroot dissent, are suddenly all for it, and the only reason they are is because the incumbent president is a Democrat. They forget that John McCain, during the campaign, was in favor of the bailouts that the Tea Party movement protests. Would they be hangers-on of the Tea Party movement if John McCain were in office? Hell no. And Democrats? The ones who were all about grassroots organization a couple of decades ago? They disapprove of the Tea Party movement, and for the same reasons, because Republicans are siding with the Tea Party movement. This is why I'm a misanthrope and have a hard time taking anybody seriously.

Okay, there's my rant for the day. I apologize, the words "conservative" and "liberal" do that to me.

[Mr. DS]

I swear a lot, find pretty much all ethnic jokes/stereotypes funny, burp out loud and generally enjoy entertainment if it is vulgar.  Bottom line, too much sh!t is tabboo in our society.  The biggest one is sex.  Look around you, we all came from somewhere.  Why is this such a big deal to talk openly about?

I think the only thing that deeply offends me is violence and perversion towards children.  Bastards who do this deserve to have their balls stomped out into liquid.   In the minor offense department, I generally don't like when others fart around me.  Smelling someone's @ss isn't funny to me.

[Trevor]

I think the only thing that deeply offends me is violence and perversion towards children.  Bastards who do this deserve to have their balls stomped out into liquid.  

I speak from experience when I say I would like to pay my biological parents and the bastards who abused me later in life back in exactly that way.  

In the minor offense department, I generally don't like when others fart around me.  Smelling someone's @ss isn't funny to me.

[trekgeezer]

I'm offended that you could possibly entertain the idea that I could be easily offended.

[Flick James]

I'm offended that you could possibly entertain the idea that I could be easily offended.

[The Burgomaster]

I'm offended that you could possibly entertain the idea that I could be easily offended.

I find this comment quite offensive.   

[Paquita]

I think I am  .  I'm not usually offended by things that would normally offend people, like name calling and stereotype jokes.  I've experienced men shouting from scaffolding, near the top of a building, at a busy intersection, some "colorful" descriptions of my butt, and while it was embarrassing, I couldn't help but see the humor in it.  And then I've cried for hours when a girl at school said I was rude to hand my empty milk carton to another girl who was taking her lunch tray to the garbage. 

I admittedly cannot play RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons because I'd be too personally offended if someone else's character kills my character.  I also get upset when I'm driving (which is not often) and someone honks at me out of anger.

[Jim H]

I think I am  .  I'm not usually offended by things that would normally offend people, like name calling and stereotype jokes.  I've experienced men shouting from scaffolding, near the top of a building, at a busy intersection, some "colorful" descriptions of my butt, and while it was embarrassing, I couldn't help but see the humor in it.  And then I've cried for hours when a girl at school said I was rude to hand my empty milk carton to another girl who was taking her lunch tray to the garbage. 

I admittedly cannot play RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons because I'd be too personally offended if someone else's character kills my character.  I also get upset when I'm driving (which is not often) and someone honks at me out of anger.

You sound more like you're sensitive than easily offended.  Fine line though.

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