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Phoenixmgs

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That's not what being offended means.

If someone is robbed at knife point, and you have a moral objection, you were offended. And if you weren't, then something is wrong with your reaction.
Actions and words are 2 different things.

Considering your attitude in almost every thread I've seen you in... yeah nah dude. 🤣

Anyone who says they don't get offended by anything is a big, fat poopie-pants fibber. It's dumb, tough guy talk from people who think getting mad means you lost.
Just because I don't mind debating doesn't mean I'm taking offense to someone not agreeing with me.
 

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Just because I don't mind debating doesn't mean I'm taking offense to someone not agreeing with me.
Suuuure.

I've seen you bring up that 'Uncharted 3 won Best Narrative at the Game Awards' with spite far too many times for it simply to be just a debate. And let us not bring up the whole C-O-V-I-D.

If you've ever in your life thought 'wow, that sucks', guess what... you were offended. It doesn't mean popping a blood vessel, or letting it ruin your whole day, it means momentarily being negatively impacted. You will take offense to stubbing your toe, just as you will take offense to wanting to get a bottle of ketchup out of the fridge but realizing you forgot to buy any.

It's not some contest for you to win or feel special about, okay. We're not in high school anymore.
 
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To add to that, as pointed out by Liss on the now defunct Shakesville site (to summarise), anything really bad is going to offend people, and worse. If we are to discount people for being offended, nobody can speak up against anything unless they don't really care about it.
No the argument is "I'm offended" shouldn't be seen as the whole argument and it is meaningless to throw it out there and expect people to care without giving them more of a reason because being offended over a highly subjective personal preference isn't something people should be expected to change things for or accommodate.

E.G. Some people invited to a Fallout 4 launch party in the past who according to rumours got upset and demanded the power armour props and pictures of nukes be removed because it was creeping them out and harshing their buzz. At a free invite only Fallout 4 launch party they were voluntarily attending.
 

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Suuuure.

I've seen you bring up that 'Uncharted 3 won Best Narrative at the Game Awards' with spite far too many times for it simply to be just a debate. And let us not bring up the whole C-O-V-I-D.

If you've ever in your life thought 'wow, that sucks', guess what... you were offended. It doesn't mean popping a blood vessel, or letting it ruin your whole day, it means momentarily being negatively impacted. You will take offense to stubbing your toe, just as you will take offense to wanting to get a bottle of ketchup out of the fridge but realizing you forgot to buy any.

It's not some contest for you to win or feel special about, okay. We're not in high school anymore.
Uncharted 3 winning Best Narrative is a perfect example of how to make a point that video game writing is not good (on the whole), that's why I bring it up, not cause it was so bad I'm offended by it. I feel strongly the writing was horrible, but it's not like if I was hanging out with friends and someone is playing it, I'd tell them to not play it or leave the room because it offends me. People get "offended" that they feel they are entitled not to hear some word or whatever. You will hear stuff everyday that you don't like and you just simply move on. I'm not trying to "win" anything, this is literally who I am, even my friends occasionally say they've never seen my mad ever because I don't get mad at anything. The things I get most upset about is nerd arguments or such and such pizza is the best because of the inherent contrast of getting upset at things that actually don't matter at all, so it's basically just for the "bit".


Uhrm yes, that's right. And you can be offended by either one.

If you "never" get offended, that includes taking offense to actions.
Only actions. There's not a single word you can say to me that will actually hurt me in any way.
 

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"White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo is a trash book. She doesn't define what is racism other than implying that it's anything African Americans don't like that is done by white people.

Also, I am not going to let a corporate consultant tell me what racism is, and isn't.
 

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The Stop the War Coalition has repeatedly blamed Nato for the build-up of tensions in the region, accusing the defence alliance of provoking President Putin by expanding membership into Eastern Europe.

JEREMY CORBYN's Stop the War Coalition are demanding Boris Johnson stop sending weapons to Ukraine - leaving Kiev helpless in the face of an invasion.

Fuck Jeremy Corbyn, I am glad he didn't win. He's a quisling Russian and Iranian shill.
 

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The Stop the War Coalition has repeatedly blamed Nato for the build-up of tensions in the region, accusing the defence alliance of provoking President Putin by expanding membership into Eastern Europe.
All these vastly different people are saying this, wonder if there might be something to it. 🤔 🤔 🤔

This group, Chomsky, Kissinger, Mearsheimer, Ritter...
 

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Yes, because punishing Japanese-Americans during World War II went so well...
There is a slight difference. The Japanese Americans interned were already American citizens; that is one of many reasons their internment was such a violation and an action of abject shame and paranoia. However, foreign students on studying visas aren’t citizens and can have their visitation rights removed at any time for any reason.

Now actually doing it at the moment would be a dramatic overreaction because the US and Russia are not (as of this writing) opposing belligerents and would make things worse. However, if this escalated to US involvement then yeah, shred their visas and send them to the nearest neutral country so they can go home.
 

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All these vastly different people are saying this, wonder if there might be something to it. 🤔 🤔 🤔

This group, Chomsky, Kissinger, Mearsheimer, Ritter...
Ukrainians have a right to self-determination of what international groups they want to join.
 
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And the US has a right to nuclear missiles on Turkey, Germany if they allow it, and Taiwan.
And yet all these things are appropriately negotiable in diplomacy to avoid human extinction. But what happens when there is no diplomatic negotiation allowed? What happens when there is no give and take on the Cuban Missile Crisis? The world as we know it fucking ENDS.
 

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"White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo is a trash book. She doesn't define what is racism other than implying that it's anything African Americans don't like that is done by white people.

Also, I am not going to let a corporate consultant tell me what racism is, and isn't.
Peh, sounds like your white fragility is showing. :p
 

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And yet all these things are appropriately negotiable in diplomacy to avoid human extinction. But what happens when there is no diplomatic negotiation allowed? What happens when there is no give and take on the Cuban Missile Crisis? The world as we know it fucking ENDS.
You obviously don't have the education to know what nuclear deterrence and MAD are.