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I beleive words or symbols offend us because we make ourselves vulnerable to them. There might be a lot of valid reasons why we make ourselves vulnerable to words or symbols. I think the root cause of the vulnerability is that a lot of us are looking to be accepted by other people. Offensive words or symbols are definetly not accepting of us or our ideas. This means that we are placing our power in other people's hands, now they have the power to control our emotions and upset us by using offensive words or symbols.
Instead of going that route we should rather accept ourselves and stop looking for validation and acceptance from others. If we accept ouselves as we are, other will also except us much easier. If they don't, who cares, we already accepted ouselves and we don't need their validation. Thus word and symbols won't offend us and we won't lose our power to them.
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