Offense

I was talking to this friend of a friend of mine on Facebook. Due to a reason I can’t quite remember, I exclaimed ‘Jesus Christ’ to express my clear astonishment to something I also can’t quite remember. She proceeded to state that,

[She was] offended by that. Don’t take [her] Lord’s name in vain. Shut up now.

After recovering from a good chuckle I decided that the only well-mannered thing to do was to relentlessly blaspheme for her to take note of the fact that she can go fuck off.

It’s far too prominent to me that people get offended much too easily. Or, people insist that they shouldn’t be offended by other’s actions. This isn’t just the case with the scenario I’ve described above, it’s almost universal with all social groups, organisations, religions, fandoms, etc.

What sort of a self-conceited idiot feels they should be immune to being offended? People can say whatever the fuck they want about you. If you’ve got such thin skin that you can’t take a remark that perturbs you, then maybe you should try working out that perhaps it’s you who needs to stop being such a whiny little bitch and that’s it’s not others that have to relinquish their freedom of speech.

You still retain the right to offend the person that offended you, you moron. If that’s not enough for you then just ignore ‘em, and get on with your miserable insignificant life. Nobody should have the right to not be offended, but everyone should have the right to offend.

With the obsession to not offend comes the magnification of political correctness. For example, people just don’t seem to say, ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore. Because, y’know, it might offend other religions and other stupid bullshit like that. If someone of another religion gets offended from hearing that statement then they don’t deserve any fucking credibility in the matter whatsoever. I’m a goddamn atheist, and I’ll continue saying ‘Merry Christmas’, and completely eschew the pussy greeting of ‘Season’s Greetings’. Not because I feel like I should be intolerant, but because I refuse to completely abstain from the former due to the reason that some dumbasses feel that I shouldn’t say it.

There was a case where a Norwegian newspaper published a drawing of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. It caused crowds of outraged muslims to protest in the streets and demand that Muhammad should be censored, and should never be visually depicted by the media or by anyone, for that matter. I encourage that newspaper to publish a special Muhammad artbook, for children to colour in. Also, everyone should partake in the Facebook draw Muhammad day, which is also quite controversial.

Folks, keep offending and exercising your freedom of speech. Especially offend those who wish to undermine that freedom.