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**** off Himmy.
Ok. How do you combat that when the word is the name of their country?Because the people, that those type of remarks are aimed at, find them offensive.
Do I take it that you consider it possible (and therefore others must alter their behaviour) for any person to find any word offensive with no regard to the true intention or meaning?If you wish to continue to use words directed at people, that find such words offensive, especially when you know those words are offensive, one can only assume that you are being intentionally offensive.
If you wish to continue to use words directed at people, that find such words offensive, especially when you know those words are offensive, one can only assume that you are being intentionally offensive.
Yes, and then you browbeat everyone else, helped by the PC brigade, to change because you have decided to be offended.If you find a word offensive then you do so by choice.
I'm not offended. Don't be so wimpy.what about limey....whitey...very offensive!
Does it matter what the word is?That's a good idea, meanwhile:
Ok. How do you combat that when the word is the name of their country?Because the people, that those type of remarks are aimed at, find them offensive.
If I don't wish to be intentionally offensive, then, yes I will.............
Do I take it that you consider it possible (and therefore others must alter their behaviour) for any person to find any word offensive with no regard to the true intention or meaning?If you wish to continue to use words directed at people, that find such words offensive, especially when you know those words are offensive, one can only assume that you are being intentionally offensive.
If I consider all your words offensive, will you stop using them?
Your choice to intentionally offend.If you wish to continue to use words directed at people, that find such words offensive, especially when you know those words are offensive, one can only assume that you are being intentionally offensive.
If you find a word offensive then you do so by choice.
Way to go on the contribution Himmy!! Can't help yourself can you? Gotta try and have a dig at every opportunity.
**** off Himmy.
Yes, IT IS THE NAME OF THEIR COUNTRY.Does it matter what the word is?
Unless, as is the subject of the thread, that word is NOT offensive.If I say, "please don't use that word, because I find it offensive", and you continue to use it, knowing that I can't change what it is about me that you exploit to offend, and now knowing that I find it offensive, surely you are continuing to use it intentionally offensively. You are being intentionally offensive. If that's what rocks your boat................
No, I am talking about words which are NOT offensive unless you choose to invent a spurious reason.If you wish to continue to use words directed at people, that find such words offensive, especially when you know those words are offensive, one can only assume that you are being intentionally offensive.
Did you avoid answering thatDo I take it that you consider it possible (and therefore others must alter their behaviour) for any person to find any word offensive with no regard to the true intention or meaning?
Is that not what I have been saying?If I don't wish to be intentionally offensive, then, yes I will.
However, if I think you are just saying that to avoid, what I consider a reasonable description, then, No, I wouldn't stop using it.
It was 'child' I found offensive.For instance, if I called you a silly child, because I thought you were being childish. Then you told me you found it offensive, I'd suggest you stop being childish and I'll stop using it.
That is true - but not if they are being intentionally offended to get you into trouble with the thought police.However, when you refer to someone by a characteristic which they cannot change, perhaps because it's a characteristic of their gender/sexuality/race/disability, etc, even though they have advised you that they find it offensive, and you continue to use it, you are being intentionally offensive.
I think it takes someone of considerably more than average intelligence to decipher your replies.But I would have thought the average intelligent person could have worked that out for themselves.
No-one is calling anyone as "hey England" or "Hey Pakistan", or "Hey, India"Yes, IT IS THE NAME OF THEIR COUNTRY.Does it matter what the word is?
Neither you nor they can avoid saying it.
Only in your opinion!Unless, as is the subject of the thread, that word is NOT offensive.If I say, "please don't use that word, because I find it offensive", and you continue to use it, knowing that I can't change what it is about me that you exploit to offend, and now knowing that I find it offensive, surely you are continuing to use it intentionally offensively. You are being intentionally offensive. If that's what rocks your boat................
Not at all, I answered you loud and clear.No, I am talking about words which are NOT offensive unless you choose to invent a spurious reason.If you wish to continue to use words directed at people, that find such words offensive, especially when you know those words are offensive, one can only assume that you are being intentionally offensive.
I said:Did you avoid answering thatDo I take it that you consider it possible (and therefore others must alter their behaviour) for any person to find any word offensive with no regard to the true intention or meaning?
That is absolutely not what you have been saying.Is that not what I have been saying?If I don't wish to be intentionally offensive, then, yes I will.
However, if I think you are just saying that to avoid, what I consider a reasonable description, then, No, I wouldn't stop using it.
Then stop behaving childishly. It's your choice.It was 'child' I found offensive.For instance, if I called you a silly child, because I thought you were being childish. Then you told me you found it offensive, I'd suggest you stop being childish and I'll stop using it.
No you're not. You are talking about words that people find genuinely offensive. You just refuse to understand why.That is true - but not if they are being intentionally offended to get you into trouble with the thought police.However, when you refer to someone by a characteristic which they cannot change, perhaps because it's a characteristic of their gender/sexuality/race/disability, etc, even though they have advised you that they find it offensive, and you continue to use it, you are being intentionally offensive.
I repeat - I am talking about words which are NOT offensive unless you choose to invent a spurious reason.
Use your own judgement.Are you saying that any word I use to describe you becomes offensive if you just think it so.
What about 'Big nose' or 'cupboard'? Should they be banned (no one ever allowed to say it again) if just you consider it offensive?
You're the notoriously vague one.I think it takes someone of considerably more than average intelligence to decipher your replies.But I would have thought the average intelligent person could have worked that out for themselves.
Way to go on the contribution Himmy!! Can't help yourself can you? Gotta try and have a dig at every opportunity.
**** off Himmy.
My American mate thought limey was offensive - news to me. Is it supposed to be offensive, if so when did that happen? Should I get myself all upset?!what about limey....whitey...very offensive!
No, it is exactly the same as calling someone Scotty. 'istan' means 'home of' or 'land of'.No-one is calling anyone as "hey England" or "Hey Pakistan", or "Hey, India"
So stop talking nonsense.
..and logic and common sense.Only in your opinion!
No, I am talking about words which are NOT offensive unless you choose to invent a spurious reason.If you wish to continue to use words directed at people, that find such words offensive, especially when you know those words are offensive, one can only assume that you are being intentionally offensive.
The name of their country is not a characteristic to be exploited.Not at all, I answered you loud and clear.
If you exploit a characteristic about someone, one that they cannot change, and use that characteristic in a ridiculing manner it becomes offensive.
It's not a spurious reason that they find the word offensive, it's because you have exploited a characteristic to ridicule them.
No, but an abbreviation of transgender is not offensive.That is absolutely not what you have been saying.
If I'm a transgender, it's something that I cannot change.
What if an adult has a mental age of ten?Then stop behaving childishly. It's your choice.
However, if it was a characteristic that you could not change, I would be intentionally offensive to use "childish" or "child" as a means to ridicule you.
No, I am not. I am talking about words which are not offensive.No you're not. You are talking about words that people find genuinely offensive. You just refuse to understand why.
No answer, then I shall draw my own conclusion.Use your own judgement.Are you saying that any word I use to describe you becomes offensive if you just think it so.
What about 'Big nose' or 'cupboard'? Should they be banned (no one ever allowed to say it again) if just you consider it offensive?
That's just your opinion - because you don't understand the language.You're the notoriously vague one.