I'm not sure it is about offending or being offended, I'm sure I have offended people in the past and will do again in the future some people do things that make me want to offend them. It is about exclusion, prejudice and loss of dignity based not on what you do (say, act like ) but who you are. ( a woman, gay, black) Anyroad I promised to shut up and its brightened up so I'm off out for a run!
Please enlighten therefore how any one was being "excluded" in the Borrowdale thread. As regards loss of dignity and prejudice.....where's the difference between that and offending someone?Originally Posted by Henry Porter
Offended Daily Mail readers? It's my mission in life.
I think I've already explained the piece about exclusion in the example about the young gay guy.
Regarding offence, its in the eye of the beholder.
Say I was on a train with my mate and a couple of pissed up lads got on and started having a go at the asian family sitting opposite. Perhaps we could see the father felt humiliated but didn't want to do anything to make it worse and possibly endanger his kids. I'd be really offended by their behavior and I hope we would have the courage to ask the lads to desist. The lads would probably take offence at us telling them what to do and start on us. we would then have to offend them further, in fact we would probably offend the s**t out of them leaving them with a considerable amount of dental work.
For goodness sake! Don't you think you're getting this a little out of context and perspective, and taking a rather extreme position.
From what I can see, there are a couple of, in my view pretty innoculous and light-hearted posts (I assume it was posts 225 and 227 on the Borrowdale thread) that appear to have offended you, Balin and Old Whippet. These were followed by post 234 therein.
The danger you are taking is to encourage exactly the opposite to what I think you want to achieve. An extreme position encourages people to react with the opposite extreme...and I'm suprised that this hasn't already happened.
Maybe we're just an accomodating bunch after all eh...
Avoid extremes - but don't be extreme in your avoidance.
oh ffs. i love banter it keeps me sane. However for the benefit of mr Henry im a nob Porter. I will keep my extreme opinions to myself.But what a cock
Henry seems like a fine chap, bit harse TT - live and let live
Excuse me...are you the People's front of Judea...?
I have often thought that it would be a good rule of conduct on the forums that if you wouldn't be prepared to say a thing to someone's face, don't say it on here for them to read.
I know this doesn't necessarily stop all innappropriate comment but it would cause people to think a bit about what they write especially as it is a pretty small community on here.
Chris Smale
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