Everything is offensive if you try hard enough
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I found this pathetic. Only alienates people more from religion. Great advertising guys (aimed at the people who took offence).
As for the advert? Wow, I think to find that offensive you probably have a job in finding offence in meaningless text. It's a pretty tenuous link.
#ugh religion
As for the advert? Wow, I think to find that offensive you probably have a job in finding offence in meaningless text. It's a pretty tenuous link.
#ugh religion
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Yeah I kinda agree, except that religion should be allowed but keep it to yourself. Worship at home or place of worship, join clubs / societies with like-minded people. Just don't bring religion to the workplace etc or get political with it.
Agreed. The difference between before 2008 and after 2008 (give or take) is social media vs forums. I prefer forums because I find it more personal i.e. you actually GET responses from other forum members and we can debate stuff. Social media I find it impersonal as it's mostly just people following each other, hash-tagging each other, pressing the +1 / like button but seemingly no debate going on, and at best, very short replies, if any.
Touché
That has long been the case, only a bit more honestly. At heart this "being offended" stuff is about the power to harm others, so it's not fundamentally different to a thug picking a victim and "justifying" attacking them by claiming they were "looking at me funny". What's different is how socially acceptable it is.
The Tesco advert was in poor taste because it specifically referenced what is strictly speaking the most important day in a religion solely for the purpose of selling more beer. I think religion is a blight on humanity and I wouldn't do that. Not because I care about religious beliefs (I don't) but because it's rude.
Very well said. No-one at the church I attend would be offended by that advert, like it's a hammer taken to a pillar of their foundation. The article handily gathers quotes from a very narrow demographic, great journalism there *smh*.
It would be far more interesting, possibly even helpful, over this weekend to get a view inside a church. To see the hard work being done with asylum seekers, those on the margins, anyone who needs help or support.
a religion that famously has used the sale of alcohol to raise revenue.
kinda hypocritical to claim associating Christianity with alcohol is bad when they do it voluntarily.
where is Buckfast from again? that terrible drink so often in the news?
I kind of wish the PC crowd AND the anti-PC crowd would be more reasonable. Whilst people are getting offended at the silliest of things, people are now getting up in arms that people are upset by legitimately offensive things.
Example of something that is obviously ridiculous - the recent advert "give your daughter a treat for doing the washing up", which was purportedly sexist. That is clearly overzealous - the fact it used a girl rather than a boy was just to make it more personal. There is no previous context to consider, unless you want to be REALLY obtuse and link it to 'women belonging in a kitchen', which would just be stupid as girls in reality do washing up every single day, as do men.
Example of something less ridiculous - the primark 'walking dead' t-shirt which said 'Eenie Meenie mini mo' with a baseball bat. The lyrics are from a well known racial slur - even if you weren't aware of it, it exists. It's not beyond reason to find it offensive if you aren't familiar with the walking dead and that specific context - it looks like something you'd find in a shady part of the deep south. Not something that I would complain about but at least it's understandable.
Example of something that is obviously ridiculous - the recent advert "give your daughter a treat for doing the washing up", which was purportedly sexist. That is clearly overzealous - the fact it used a girl rather than a boy was just to make it more personal. There is no previous context to consider, unless you want to be REALLY obtuse and link it to 'women belonging in a kitchen', which would just be stupid as girls in reality do washing up every single day, as do men.
Example of something less ridiculous - the primark 'walking dead' t-shirt which said 'Eenie Meenie mini mo' with a baseball bat. The lyrics are from a well known racial slur - even if you weren't aware of it, it exists. It's not beyond reason to find it offensive if you aren't familiar with the walking dead and that specific context - it looks like something you'd find in a shady part of the deep south. Not something that I would complain about but at least it's understandable.
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^ both those examples are overzealous IMO
Tesco was just responding to market forces, a lot of people spend good Friday and the bank holiday weekend drinking and socialising with their friends, so they aimed their marketing at those people. It's just a fact of life that religion isn't that important in this country anymore.
I'm offended that you are bringing mumsnet abbreviations here.. this forum shouldn't require a crib sheet just to understand a post.
The best thing about the internet is that it gives everyone a voice. Coincidentally, this is also the worst thing.
All those quotes and not a single link to anyone actually being offended by it. Everything I saw on Twitter was people poking fun of the advert.
Some people seem to be on a constant hunt for offended people. Anyone who disagrees with something or finds something funny is instantly labelled as offended by it. And then starts the rant about how you can't say <insert nonsense> these days without someone being offended.
Some people seem to be on a constant hunt for offended people. Anyone who disagrees with something or finds something funny is instantly labelled as offended by it. And then starts the rant about how you can't say <insert nonsense> these days without someone being offended.
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It's not giving people a voice which is the issue, it is that other people blindly legitimise it.
Too many people still worryingly believe and follow all sorts of online material without question; whether that is a real persons option or just a made up persona with an agenda.
Lucybee is a great example on here where that person gathered a following and momentum and it was total fiction. Castiel is another who had people hanging off his every viewpoint.
The press hunt twitter for trending topics it's how they fill their 24 hour "news" cycle
