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So here's another sign of the golden age. I'm going to make the following pronouncement: nobody is offended by anything anymore. You probably didn't notice. It kind of snuck up on you. And you think it's true, right? You think it's not true. You think that people are offended all the time by language and insults. Nope.
What has happened is people are pretty sure that other people could be offended, and they're defending those people. But we ran out of people who were offended. I don't even know the last time I heard about anybody being offended personally. Now when people say they're offended, really it's just language. They're just saying, "Oh, I'm offended that you called me bald." Well, not really. I get called bald fairly often, and I can't remember the last time I felt offended. You know, maybe I didn't like it. Maybe it's not the message I wanted to take forward about myself. But offended? I don't know. It just feels like it's an opinion happening in somebody else's skull.
Can anybody remember the last time you were offended? Sometimes you just don't like what people are saying, but offended? You just think there's something wrong with the person who said it, right?
So I just think we should recognize that we're no longer in a world where people are offe
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nded. We're just pretty sure other people are. Do you know what it means when you think somebody else is offended? Think about it. Think about it. What it means for the people who say that, "Well, I'm not offended, but on behalf of those other people, I'm going to defend them." What's that really saying? It's really kind of offensive, isn't it? It's kind of offensive that somebody thinks they need…
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