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So **** if it's offensive. Grow up. Act like an adult. Get over it. People do offensive things every single day and you know what - normal human beings forget about it.
Here's the thing, I have every right to be as offensive as I want to you. You have every right to be offended. Just because you're offended however doesn't take away my right to offend you.
If I want to tell you that you're a bald chimp and your wife looks like a dogs scrotum - I can.
People say/do dumb things from time to time, some people say/do dumb things all the time, being offensive is one of those dumb things. Sadly sometimes people just can't control it, other times it's completely inadvertent and then yes, it can be deliberate.
Being offended, however, is a choice. You can choose not to be offended. Some people even pay to go and see some comedians be offensive for a living. Getting offended over things just strikes me as pathetic however.
I've been discriminated against. I've been racially abused.
I didn't cry about it, I simply thought 'meh, morons' and got on with my life.
As for the legality bit - well sometimes laws go too far don't they?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1568475/Ten-stupidest-laws-are-named.html
Enjoy that link for examples.
Someone doesn't understand the difference between being a **** to someone and discriminating against a class of person protected by LAW.
If I walk up to you in the street and call you a pillow biter there is nothing you can do about it, if you come into my shop and I say no I won't serve you because you are a pillow biter then that is ILLEGAL.
It's sad that I have to preface this but I am in NO WAY trying to equate the struggles of race to that of sexuality but I'm guessing black people should have just took it on the chin and stop being babies in the 50s/60s right?