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Originally Posted by LiamBB

It was meant more as cheeky than ironic

BUT that begs the question, who then decides what is and what isn't offensive. Sure there's the obvious things we could list that of course are terrible, but with what you would consider the little things, everyone has different thresholds, and isn't that just part of being human? Sure there will always be people who complain about things and I'll think "get over it!" coz I don't get offended easily, or there'll be people who jump on bandwagons but I fear that if everyone took your attitude it would ostrasize a lot of people who are essentially just expressing how they feel and I don't like that. I think we need people who are going to push boundaries and offend, and we also need people who are prepared to push back at it and have their opinions heard, that's true freedom of speech for everyone, right?

I haven't said they should listen to me.

Just voicing my opinion that it's more "fashionable" than ever before (especially for celebs on twitter) to start speaking out in the desperate attempt to become some sort of icon as though they're Ellen Degeneres fighting for gay rights when really they're just "speaking out" about anything and everything for the sake of the attention and finding offence where there isn't any.

It's like I was reading an article on DS the other day about Cheryl. She'd apparently said in an interview something about "obese people shouldn't be told they look great...." or something like that but the headline read something completely different like "Cheryl slams the overweight" or something when she specifically mentioned "obese". They were purposely trying to stir up offence where there didn't need to be any. To jump on the bandwagon and say, look what minority this person is attacking, aren't I great for pointing it out.