I am having a hard time understanding why people get so offended by others. What investment do I really have in needing others to validate or justify me?
Is it enough to say you hurt my feelings and you must admit your errors?

Who's perspective trumps?

Who's belief is superior?

Who is more just?

Why?

Let me share a true story about myself.

I am 62, and remember reading a little picture book called, Little Black Sambo.
I thought it was a great story, had tigers in it and a great ending.

Years later a chain breakfast resturant used it to launch a new venture. It was called Sambo's and featured pancakes as its trademark.
I ate there many times.
It was forced to close when the PC mindset became a political tool in California.
I never saw or affiliated any negativity to the story, where it all started. As a small child it opened my imagination into understanding that other people lived in this world, and instilled a desire to hopefully one day visit these other people and places.
I understand the story is fictional, as are fables and other works by Grimm, and friends.....
But somehow I think by some folks need to define this world, it removes the very uniqueness that makes all of our own distinctinc characteristic special....

Not sure if I made any sense, feel free to ask me to qualify, if I can, or add your thoughts  

Pine wrote on 05/07/15 at 12:00:15:

It was completely humorous and everyone applauded her... for the wrong reason.
If you listen to what she said... "you will not be the next freddie gray" or something to that effect.
She was not supporting the cops (nor do I feel she should have)...
Nor supporting non-violent protest...
She was sayin' 'get the L away from those cops, they'll kill you'

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OMG, I remember it well !
They were also in Minn.  
(Until the P.C. Police got their undies in a bunch)

Gee, in Minn, they changed a name of a H.S. Football team, cause it was called, ‘Warriors”, and displayed a, ‘Indian’ logo.
Then 10, ‘Asians’, stormed the State Capital, and, ‘DEMANDED”, that the word, ’Asian’ was Removed, from, ‘Asian Carp’.
It is now called,  “Invasive Carp”.
Of course, just because that, ‘carp’, came from Asia, their is NO reason to call it, ‘Asian Carp”.    LOLOLO

I am thinking,  (Because their is a little Scandinavian blood in me),
I should now, DEMAND, that the, ‘Vikings”, change their name. LOLOLOL

Personally, I'm offended by people who are offended by _____, and try to be PC.

Was "Little Black Sambo" a racist book? I never read it.

We have a guy at work that was screaming racism last week because he was singled out for doing something wrong. Let me repeat that...he did something wrong...as in GUILTY! ...your fault! ...busted! That's offensive to me that he would drop the race card for that.

"You're in trouble for what you did, not who you are!"

Kris01 wrote on 05/07/15 at 18:19:37:


I don't recall it being racist, but of course I'm white, so I'm not qualified to say (and that's not racist)
we had Sambo's here, too, for a while

True story; I grew up in the 'hood, and one day I got tired of a friend, Charlie by name, running off at the mouth about the racist police always hassling him for being black
"Charlie" I said "The Police aren't harassing you because you're Black, they're harassing you because you sell more drugs than Walgreen's"
Even in a crowd where I was the only white guy, this got backing, and a laugh (yes, he really was a dealer)

Vers -
I took a different tack on the mother's comment that her son was not going to be another Freddie Gray - like in "drug dealer".  I took her as an upstanding lady who wants her son to get out of gangs, drugs, and the world of criminals, out of the hood, and make something out of himself.  That's why he thanked her a day later.

Also, I'm old enough to remember Amos and Andy, one of the best comedies of the 1950s.  Too bad it fell victim to PC.

Lol, compliment your local militant feminist on her outfit and watch the fireworks
And then we as guys are supposed to make the first move
and some women wonder why they don't get asked out more
duh
I'm not allowed to notice your physical beauty
I don't know anything about you except that you look good (assuming a first meeting)
so what does that leave?
if I as a man don't find you physically attractive, why would I want to date you?
and don't let women kid you, they judge on looks at first too