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In reply to the discussion: Facebook Photo Of Woman At Tomb Of The Unknowns Sparks Outrage [View all]Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)You're confessing to being a blithering idiot by not understanding that someone might be justifiably upset about "disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate" behavior directed toward the tomb of a dead soldier in Arlington National Cemetary.
You see, if flipping off a man who died protecting his country is not offensive (by DU rules), then suggesting that some one might be a blithering idiot, or might even be a rat-fucking shithead, should certainly not be any less offensive. How could it be?
What you're basically suggesting here is that there's is no such thing as a community standard for one's public behavior, and that only, as you put it, "defensive and thin-skinned" people take offense to other people's actions. So I shouldn't be offended by the neo-klansmen who hanged racist effigies of Barack Obama during the last election. I'm just being "defensive and thin-skinned" because nobody should ever take offense at the guy who paints a swastika on the door of the local synagogue.
If this woman is too fucking stupid to understand that her behaviour might have been offensive, and if she's furthermore so fucking stupid that she posted it on Facebook for the whole world to see, then she's too fucking stupid to hold a job.