{"id":25510,"date":"2012-01-17T17:10:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/i-find-your-offended-offense-to-be-offensive.html"},"modified":"2012-01-18T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:22:00","slug":"i-find-your-offended-offense-to-be-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/i-find-your-offended-offense-to-be-offensive.html","title":{"rendered":"I find your offended offense to be offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While politeness might cause me to not take actions that unnecessarily cause offense, ultimately there is no &quot;right&quot; to not be offended, nor should there be. Dealing with offensive people and situations without pulling out a gun, or calling the police to do likewise, is a sign of emotional and cultural maturity.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#39;s easy to point at the over-sensitive Muslims in this story, there are any number of Christians who are just as thin-skinned over their own sacred cows (or equivalent).  And some of those groups have similarly sought to make &quot;disrespect&quot; of religion in general (and theirs in particular) illegal. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Frhysmorgan.co%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F01%2Fjesus-and-Mo-UCL.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/blaghag\/2012\/01\/uk-student-threatened-with-expulsion-over-mohammed-cartoon\/'>UK student threatened with expulsion over Mohammed cartoon | Blag Hag<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt&#39;s not just that it happened away from school. As I understand it, some people threatening him are his own classmates. But rather than protecting him from them, the school seems to be blaming hi&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While politeness might cause me to not take actions that unnecessarily cause offense, ultimately there is no &quot;right&quot; to not be offended, nor should there be. Dealing with offensive people and situations without pulling out a gun, or calling the police to do likewise, is a sign of emotional and cultural maturity. While it&#39;s easy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/i-find-your-offended-offense-to-be-offensive.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I find your offended offense to be offensive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,110,46,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-religious-zanies","category-school-daze","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27160,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/the-right-to-not-be-offended-is-itself-offensive.html","url_meta":{"origin":25510,"position":0},"title":"The Right to Not Be Offended &#8230; is, itself, offensive","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Mar-12 5:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"The essence of politeness is being in offensive. 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