offended

People who get offended need to grow up and engage with a society with a personal strength.

If this personal ritual of being offended is hurting you, look at where that comes from internally the core mechanism.

It's so bizarre how offended people get (the Facebook commenters in this instance) when scrutinizing the person used in an ad.

The reason these particular jokes get noticed is because some people are obsessed with crying foul when certain groups are offended.

People will disagree, but it takes mental gymnastics to be offended by things like that.

It's delicious how many who can't or won't understand the concept of being offended are now worrying aloud about being shamed.

But I'm also not alarmed or offended by it; I just think less of people who promote it.

How many people have to be offended by it before it counts?

Clearly the site was offended by my attempt at modesty.

It's likely not the mentally disabled that are getting offended.

It's possible this project was reported by an offended user.

However, plant enough seeds over long enough and you wake up one day without being able to express things that cause other people to be offended.

> The danger is that you seem to be choosing to not recognize the growing trend towards what are seen as appropriate responses to being offended: shaming, ostracizing, and the forced silence of the "offender".

Give it a few decades and we wouldn't be having this discussion because no person with mental disabilities would feel offended by anyone using it as a mere synonym for "dunce".

However, publicly calling Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot" certainly was intentionally offensive, which you can conclude from the Royal National Institute of Blind People being offended by the comparison, the Scots being offended by the comparison, and the association of idiots probably being somewhere trying to prepare a statement about being offended.

On the contrary, I expect that the next time this happens, it will end up being more about ideology as it seems more and more people conflate "I am offended" with "I disagree".