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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459611" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Are you offended by the word 'offensive'? If so..</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Cell-phone and sell’ is the new money-maker; <br>‘taking offence’ vicariously is the new morality…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">switch on your mobile if you’re near<br>any ‘celebrity’ – best of all, backstage<br>or nervous from the make-up room; <br>you may catch some phrase that’s not meant<br>for your ears; or a private word that causes offence<br>between two people, but privately; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">then put it up on YouTube; sell it to the Sundays; <br>the world can share it; and shiver with righteous delight<br>in ‘taking offence’; maybe a reporter will catch you<br>in the street so you can add your shock-horror quota<br>to the public outrage at a private word..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">oh for the days when the gusty breeze of humour<br>blew these words away; who remembers now, <br>when the nation revelled in ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ on the telly<br>and ‘nig-nog’ and ‘whitey’ were thrown about; <br>(When will they dare to broadcast a repeat?) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or even the days when ‘Paki-bashing’ drew attention<br>to our vicious prejudices; and we could feel genuine shame; <br>or the time when ‘niggardly’ was practically banned<br>because it sounded like an insult? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If we go on like this, being called a ‘Northerner’<br>will imply some insult; as would ‘Southerner’…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the cannibal chief said when he popped<br>a tasty missionary into the curried (oops, sorry..) stew: <br>‘It’s all a matter of social context, Rev…it’s<br>nothing personal…’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And whatever you’re called when you’re grown-up –<br>remember: it never hurts like those playground names...<br>or worse, nick-names that stuck for years…<br>from those of your own age, who<br>yesterday or tomorrow, might again be chums..? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somewhere in Australia at this very moment<br>someone called Murdoch is calling someone just like me or you<br>a ‘whinging Pom’…remind me to take offence, would you? <br>Then I’ll sound off to the Sun…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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