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I guess it just looked to me that you feel that people should be MORE accountable for how they react to what people say, than to the accountability of those who said it about them.
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If we evaluated everything we said to see if it
could be offensive to
someone, we'd never speak. Likewise, we'd never make social progress. After all, making social progress MEANS saying something that people will disagree with, even get mad at. Even further, we'd be a useless society so involved in being "politically correct" that we couldn't say or notice anything without being inconsiderate or sex/age/race/class-ist.
On the other hand, if everyone took accountability for their own fucking emotions, we would be a more intelligent society, one in which people didn't get upset because X person said Y comment to me and thus it means that I am A B and C. One that wasn't effected so drastically by the media, one that wasn't so afraid of everything from SARS to Terrorists, and one that had much less violent emotional reactions. Domestic violence, revenge killings, or oh-no.. terrorist attacks, maybe?