AIBU to think ...

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Soon we are all going to have to live our life without speaking and just stay mute because no matter what we say these days it offends SOMEONE .

Even conversations we would have had just a few years ago , now we would upset or cause an argument somehow .

We offend someone about disability , gender , colour , race , religion , age ... There really is nothing someone won't take offence at .

No wonder we are losing the art of conversation because we are all scared of putting our foot into a conversation and saying something "wrong" !

It seems like we are losing our right to have a view incase other people don't agree with it .
Maybe it's just me who thinks like this ?

No, offence thieves are rife.

?? I think it’s fair to say that people quite rightly get offended at disablist/sexist/racist comments. Do you think that you should have complete freedom to offend others?

As far as I am aware I have managed to have plenty of conversations without causing offence. Perhaps because I don’t hold offensive views and I know when to keep my gob shut?

Offence is an internet thing. People are getting offended because people say stuff online that they wouldn't in real life.

you are sad that people can't be openly racist, homophobic, disableist etc any more

yabu

Do you watch programs such as "It was alright in the 70's/80's", or the ones that focus on Sexist TV?

Most of the people of that era cried that freedom of speech was dead, "it's PC gone mad" etc, when we had the first wave of exclusivity/diversity speech etiquette come in . But we managed to still speak to each other and television only got better.

There's a few things still knocking about from the bad old days and a lot more people need to be taught to think critically and educate themselves.

Those that can't probably need to do us all a favour and STFU, anyway.

I think you are both BU and NBU, to be fence straddlingly honest.

Yes, there is so much that is far better now than it was before, like the 70s! But there are also lots of people, here and in RL, who think that they have the right to float through life never being offended. Well, tough, cos that isn't going to happen for anyone.

There are many people who try to shut others down by throwing down the offended card. It is tiresome. Unfortunately, the same freedom of speech that allows us all to say things that others may find offensive also allows them to be offended and to say so, often in the most emotionally charged language.

I usually try and find a laugh and pithy comment about being ludicrous. But they often garner sympathy, mainly because their emotions are harder to deny than my laughter is to join with.

I agree there are many "old" views that are downright awful and I'm glad we are seeing a lot of them very much frowned upon in society . I heard a bus driver use a term for a disabled person in a horrible sentence just the other day and thankfully I'm glad we don't hear that word and others like it very often now.

"I heard a bus driver use a term for a disabled person in a horrible sentence just the other day and thankfully I'm glad we don't hear that word and others like it very often now."

So you are glad that you no longer often hear words that you personally find upsetting, but you think it's too much to extend that same privilege to others about words THEY don't like?

YABU.

I hope you reported the bus driver then