How do some of you not understand the concept of thinking something is right or wrong is not the same concept as being personally offended by something.

The scale here is admittedly lower which is why I asked if someone said "May Christ be with you" if that would be ok? I think most people would feel that would be inappropriate. The same general concept exists here.

I'm lucky that my life is considered acceptable by most of the major religions. However, let's imagine that a person was gay and had been kicked out of the church and had strained or no relationship with their family because religion said homosexuality is wrong and this person told them to "Have a blessed day". Would they be irrational in being upset by the phrase?

I'm not even saying the person who did it is a bad person or anything. It's just not an appropriate comment in that situation. That is it.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

He must have been at Benning as well.

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Elections have consequences.

Yes.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Yes

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Well, now we have a clear line of disagreement here. At least you can still be champion of the "working man"!

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Always

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I love how neither Brick nor I said we were offended by it, yet almost every response has some variation of "if you're offended by this, then..."

Why am I lumped in with that group?

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"Have a blessed day" is the polite passive aggressive way to say fuck you chief.

Fully supported.

The "if you're offended by this" comments were largely pointed to afternoon host who was offended by it. You know, the budding SJW who discovered feminism and gay rights after being a radio shitlord for 12 years.

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It's because you and Rick haven't really thought your position through. If it's wrong, it's because it's offensive (at least to enough people that it would matter). If it's not offending anybody, you simply cannot make a case that it is wrong.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Obviously, there will be plenty of people who would and should be offended by injecting religion into a place where it doesn't belong. Your argument is that this isn't "offensive enough". The same general idea applies. It would be better if this person didn't say "Have a blessed day" and instead choose any of the hundreds of non-religious ways to end a conversation.

Also, it is disingenuous to say "If it's not offending anybody, you simply cannot make a case that it is wrong" and then also say "If you are offended by this, then you are wrong". You might as well just say "I don't think it is wrong so that means it isn't wrong".

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

this needs to be reiterated.

a buddies grandfather told me this once. its really a dig at white people.

so that he was all douchey probably made that workers day.

the best part is that goff knows this and probably inside is chuckling about it.

Huh? That's not disingenuous at all. Both of those statements are correct, in my opinion. It's ridiculous to be offended by that statement, even if you were disowned by your religious parents or whatever hard luck story you wanna come up with, and if you are offended by it, i think you're wrong to be. You and KD are the ones trying to dance around and say it's wrong but not offensive, which just doesnt make sense.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

In your opinion is the key word.

You set things up to say no one should be offended by this or they are wrong and also since no one is offended by it then it is not wrong.

I believe there are a lot of people that don't want to have religion injected into their food purchase.

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We are all just giving our opinions here. What else did you think this was?

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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In that case, I think it is wrong. Good talk.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

If no one is offended, why is it "wrong"?

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Did you think it was something other than that?

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Hypothetical Persecuted Gay Guy could potentially be offended.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

There are people offended by being told to have a nice day too.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I think there are a lot of people that could or would be offended by it.

I just happen not to be one of them.

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The problem is you have extended it to projecting your opinion on everyone in saying that no one would be offended by this and if they are offended by it then they are wrong.

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I'm not projecting my opinion on to everyone, and I don't believe I ever said nobody would be offended by the saying. I said its wrong to be offended by it, because it is. I also said the two guys here arguing that it's wrong aren't even offended by it so it's hard to take your argument seriously.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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Ok, I guess you want to take everything literally. I'll take that back then and just say nobody on this board seems to give a shit and in the 5+ years I've worked at a restaurant nobody ever gave a shit enough to complain about someone saying that. Yet for some reason you think there's some large number of people out there who would be offended.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Yeah. It's my fault for taking something you said as something you meant.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Obtuse Rick strikes again!

That was one single comment from multiple posts disagreeing with you, and it was obviously meant as an exaggeration to prove a point. It would be like saying "Nobody gives a shit about the WNBA" Of course that's literally not true, but the general sentiment behind it obviously is.

Anyway, I think you should finally be able to understand why we all thought you were trolling. Nobody HERE would be upset by someone saying it, and yet you still feel the need to argue on behalf of some unknown, unquantifiable group of people who MIGHT potentially be offended by such an innocuous statement. C'mon.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

It's like you think you can just say "Obtuse" as some cure-all response. The post is clear. It's not my fault that I took your words as your words.

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