A Note on A Right

And that is your right. Gosh, we could go in circles here.

@CarolDM — Hey, I’m offended that you’re offended by my offense!

@FourWalls And it continues around and around.

We live in a time when pancake syrup offends people. Anything is possible. lol

@porwest It's mainly why I kind of stopped caring what people think. I am not rude by any stretch, but I won't hold back my opinion either. You can't please everyone.

This is exactly right. The hard thing to do is NOT offend someone because nowadays anyone can be offended by anything. Some of it you just aren't going to know. Like that someone would be offended by pancake syrup.

@kaylachan Nope. You sure can't. And frankly, it's not worth trying to. Even around here, obviously I say what I want and sometimes it offends someone or pisses them off. Some of them block me. Frankly, I don't give two damns. lol It won't change who I am. It won't get me to start parsing my words. And it won't make me care any more or less than I do already.

@porwest I really hope so, I feel like most of us are being picked on by a minority but people are starting to speak out and refuse to be silenced.

This is the thing, I think, which has gotten out of hand, and that is that only certain people are "allowed" to be offended these days—the rest of us are supposed to just take it. In other words, there are certain groups who can be offended and force everyone else to shut up or be demonized while they can do whatever they want. I think the tide it turning just a little bit because I think people are getting tired of it. But we shall see.

@Fleura I definitely agree with you on this. And it is high time the majority gets VERY loud.

@porwest I didn't directly reference TikTok. I don't even do TikTok. I have no idea what your post has to do with TikTok. There is no reason for you to bring transgender people into the discussion.

@NJChicaa Yes you DID. Otherwise why would you have commented in the way you did after the comment you posed to me in reference to my post on TikTok? The two are directly related, otherwise there would have been no reference in THIS post pointing to a "company who provided me with a consequence for offensive speech." Of COURSE that is what you were directly referring to, because without that reference your comment really makes no sense at all. There IS a reason to bring transgenderism into the discussion (and by the way it is my discussion and I can do whatever I want) when the comment you made in this post was related to another post that contained a reference to transgenderism which was, considered by TikTok, a company, as offensive speech. Funny how that all just sort of miraculously comes together, hey? But see, what you sort of did here was redirect (another word for deflect) from the larger point that the company you agree with also disagrees with you, and you did not see fit to have a comment on that part of it.

My post has nothing to do with TikTok, nor do I disagree with your statement. With the exception of people of course. People, individually have no legal recourse for any speech they dislike or disagree with or otherwise deem offensive. I should point out, though, since that is YOUR direct reference in your comment, you may be interested to know that TikTok is a Chinese company. You may ALSO be interested to know that in China, transgenderism is considered legally, a mentail illness, and while I agree with hardly anything China does, I agree with their legal definition of transgenderism as a mental illness.

@porwest I think we're all losing it.

I know, right? Me too. This world has completely gone off the deep end. lol

Oh. I think it absolutely is a decision. Especially when it comes to certain things. The funny thing to me is that who is most offended by most things? The ones who a decade ago you would have found a "coexist" sticker on their bumper.

True. But the point here is that no one is technically in the wrong who offends you.

@porwest

If more people reacted this way, I think the world would actually be a much better place. Sometimes people just need to not take things so seriously and laugh a little.

@porwest correct. laugh a little so as not to stress easily