Offenderati :- people who seek to be offended by just about anything, very often on behalf of other, unspecified, people.
This relatively new social group has been identified for the first time on tonight's One Show.
Lacking the courage to state "I find that offensive" they lay the responsibility on others and claim "this group (insert disabled, gay, religious, short as required) will be offended by that (whatever it is) and I insist you cease".
Others within the group find offense at unlikely things - jokes about walking into doors while wearing sunglasses indoors are labelled as "glassesist".
Who are these people? Have you met one? Do they actually get out at all? Have they met these 'vulnerable' groups and actually checked if they might be offended by the same things?
This relatively new social group has been identified for the first time on tonight's One Show.
Not at all new Foxylady ---- Mary Whitehouse had it all sewn up in 1964 when she launched the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (NVLA), which was renamed Mediawatch-UK in 2001.
Basically, if the vicar couldn't have read it from the pulpit on a sunday, she would complain about it !!!
Ive worked with a few, normally victims of political correctibility gawn mad in that they are responsible for overseeing some ridiculously overbearing diversity policy.
That said I personally find it difficult to tolerate intolerance.
There are thousands of them, they devote all their time "defending" groups of people who neither need or want to be defended. They are almost always loonie lefties, scruffy smelly drop outs living in squats, or hippy students who smoke too much skunk. I would personally love to give them a special little place they could call their own. A little footpath leading to the edge of the cliff on Beachy Head.
They're just a bunch of dogooders and no marks with no brains and too much time on their hands. :0(
Though I personally find nothing offensive in this post I fear some may be upset.......could someone please lock this thread immediately to prevent further offense
They've been around for years - now they have what they think is power - they are.......THE ANORAKS!!!!!!
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I'm not, but other people might find it offensive and I think you should all be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves.
I have one anecdote that may fit this. A community centre I was working in, in an area with a large Asian population and a clientelle consisting of about 90% young Asian women and thier children had not put up thier christmas tree or decorations by the middle of December because the new manager wanted to wait till Eid was over before starting the Christmas celebrations, so as to not offend anyone by making it seem like we valued christmas more than Eid, Diwali, Hannukah, Talk Like A Pirate Day or anything else. (previously we'd always just celebrated everything all together as an excuse to have lots of parties).
There were several comments from the women (Sikh, Hindu and Muslim alike) of, 'Why isn't the christmas tree up yet? we put ours up ages ago at home.'
I have not met a single muslim yet who has objected to christmas being celebrated, or to thier children being involed in a nativity play. This is just my experience, and I can't speak for people of any other religion... well, any religion at all, actually... but there it is.
I won't use the term 'wog' because of the unpleasant association. But the golly is a symbol of childhood and marmalde to me - nothing more nothing less.
I have one of the 'offending' gollies on a mug I use at work. If anyone tells me they find it offensive I will, of course, put it away - until they have gone. I have no wish to offend anyone - but symbols are different for each person.
After all the swastika was (and still is?) a sacred Hindu symbol. It has changed from good to bad - can't a little happy figure change from bad to good?
On another tack, my ex held a door open for a woman behind us, who responded very snappily with "there's no need to be sexist" so he let go of it. Not wishing to offend her of course. The fact it very nearly smacked her in the face is sheer accident.
is Empathy such a bad thing?
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