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Why is everyone getting upset by this sort of thing now? It happens every day all of the time. Why are you only angry when one particular example is brought to your attention by a sensationalist media? Poor show, I say.
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We can hardly get upset about a load of stuff that we don't know about. Poor show, BM, but your heart was in the right place - fluff manipulative tabloid journalism. As long as you have your head screwed on, you can treat whatever story on its own merits and cut through the crap.
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Ah you're not evil, just sarcastic with an ego.
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That's what they said about Hitler.
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Okay, it was a bit of an insensitive joke. Fine. You got me. But to get all offended by the word rape is just silly. There are horrible things that happen everyday in this world. Rape, murder, emo music, etc. Somebody, somewhere, and at some time has been put through the most disturbing things imaginable and it's safe to say that you will probably run into someone who knows a person like this. But is that a reason to censor a joke? I say no. Hell, the only way to stay sane in a world like this is to be able to laugh about the shit that happens. Also, how can you possible hold me responsible for the terrible acts of some disturbed individual? Do you think I really did rape and skin her mother? Do you think I was threatening to rape and skin her mother? No. You don't. At least, if you have any intelligence at all you don't. I knew a guy once who couldn't abide anyone saying the word death because his mother had died. All you had to do was say the word and he would throw a little hissy fit tantrum. I can't be held responsible for your mother dying or for your friend getting HIV. Sorry. If you were offended by the language and you didn't like the tone I was taking then I understand that. And maybe I'm even a little sorry. But don't be offended simply because you know a person who was raped because I will not walk on eggshells around you. Don't be stupid.
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As Hobo has commented on this, I'll consider it fair game.
This is all fine and dandy and true and obvious, except for the fact that you then went on to make a further joke specifically tailored to somebody's situation. Now, Hobo must be very easily pleased, because that didn't strike me as particularly 'mature' at all, and something that a person could take perfectly justified umbrage to.