Your opinion.However, you like to act like you do have the monopoly on it..
I'm just as fallible as anyone else in making mistakes.
The difference is, when it is pointed out to me, that I have inadvertently offended someone, and I then accept it, I would unhesitatingly apologise, and determine not to use the particular offensive phrase/comment again.
When some, like transam, foxtrot (perhaps as F&I, Corgicrouch etc), et al make spurious and fatuous allegations, I may ask for them to explain how it was considered offensive.
I may refute them.
There may be a discussion about it.
Often I'll simply ignore the spurious, fatuous allegation for what is.
I'm referring to such spurious and fatuous allegations as the expression "Pot, Kettle, Black, etc is racially offensive. Such allegations as use of "imbecilic" as offensive to disabled, etc. Such allegations as me being sexist, etc.
Such allegations as these try to trivialise genuine incidents of offensive behaviour, and demonstrate the true nature of the individuals making spurious and fatuous allegations.
Additionally, I, almost unconsciously, give some thought to the comments I'm about to make.
If I consider my comments have the potential to offend, I'll think of another way of expressing myself, rather than wantonly disregarding that possibility of offending.
Dan used an expression, which he thought, or did not think at all, that it was not racially offensive. Alternatively it might have crossed his mind, but he used the expression anyway.Dan used an idiom and you called him racist on the back of it when he meant no harm.
He asked me for an explanation, I advised him to seek his own counsel because I knew he wouldn't accept my explanation.
He insisted on my explanation. I eventually provided him with an explanation, supported by real incidents and opinions.
He then still refuted my explanation, and as far as we know, he has still not sought his own counsel.
Furthermore, he hasn't accepted that he wouldn't use that expression again, now knowing that it is racially offensive.
I did explain this earlier this morning. I also asked you which of the four scenarios, I presented, best fitted the events?
You often accuse me of dodging the issue. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you don't.
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