How Obama Handles Crisis

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24. well, I didn't process that word as a slur until it was pointed out on this thread

I understand the context and i agree with the actual inference the author is making.

Personally, I can't account for everything that might offend folks. I've been humbled and amazed by the responses i get on the internet. it is an invaluable insight into reasoning and perspective that is different from our own.

It's, perhaps, a good thing that you spelled out just what offended you here. I didn't guess that 'bedwetter' was your beef, but I'm certain that I"LL never use it as an analogy in my own writing, having been so thoroughly chastised here.

I do maintain that you really can have a blind spot to words and analogies which might offend. I don't have a hair trigger for most words which are generally accepted as offensive. I'm a bit dull to most other more unassuming language which isn't as regularly denounced as offensive. I'm dull to most of that as a defensive mechanism. I'm just not, personally, going to allow myself to be defeated by what someone else might think of me or how they might characterize me. I will defend against slurs, but I'm not always as attuned to them for the sake of others as I maybe should be.

It shouldn't be such a stunner that I took this fellow's comment for what he meant to convey. I think you took a divergent route. That may well be a consequence of the language used. I hope that you might find an opportunity to make this fellow aware of your complaint. It might serve his writing as it serves a community which might be sensitive to the use of the term.

I'm going to compromise between my own antipathy and your concern and revert to the original title.