Wise words I heard once before: "One cannot offend another if the other chooses not to be offended." I'm not saying you don't have the right to be offended. I'm not saying that you have a right to tell the person such. Nor am I stating weather or not his statement was acceptable. I'm just saying that the responces were rude and distracting from the topic. Any offinse should have been taken up directly with him, or through the list mod. Your comment regarding others having "more of a right to be offended" assumes that you know me. Maybe I'm gay, maybe my best friend is, or perhaps my Aunt, Uncle, or Cousin. You don't know. No one has more of a right to be offended than another. However, the PC Natzis that want to publicly make it an issue are equally offensive. But, they have the weight of PCness to tell them they can be offensive and not care. That is why I spoke up. Be offended all you want, just don't make it a public issue because I don't want to see you cry. And don't be just as rude by making smart elic remaks. Such behavior is petty, childish, and gives the offense more attention than it should ever have had. I'm done with this topic. Black --- Chris Goodwin <cgoodwin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Steven R. Black II wrote: > > > I'm sick of people being so PC about certain subjects. Get off his > > back. You know, most likely he's not at all homophobic and you just > > want to be offended. Geez! > > > > Yes, dated. Homophobic, no. Okay, so I've made two posts now. You > > get the picture. Lets not get offended over local and out-of-date > > coloquielisms (sp). > > Just because you're not offended doesn't mean that someone else, with > more of a right to be offended by it than you have, isn't. > > -- > Chris Goodwin > cgoodwin@xxxxxxxxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com