Pride Celebration Thread🏳️‍🌈

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Offended and annoyed are synonymous. They are the exact same thing and it’s wildly hypocritical.

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Nah, hurt is in offended, check dictionary, not in annoyed, and if you haven’t followed, the “hurt” is the key part of the snowflake ridicule. Everyone gets annoyed by stuff after all, but getting hurt by silly things is next level. And it makes sense, when you want to change something, claiming you’re “offended” is much more effective than “annoyed,” nobody cares if you’re annoyed lol. But “offended” implies something more serious.

Thanks for coming to my ted semantics talk

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Yes, annoyed is part of offend, and offend isn’t part of annoyed. That’s how words work sometimes. :man_shrugging:

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That offend is so linked with annoyance that it makes it into the dictionary defintion of offended, means that they are in fact synonymous.

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…no, it doesn’t work like that. I don’t really know how to explain it any better than I already have, can’t be bothered to be honest. Hurt is not in the definition of annoyed, that’s all.

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YOOOO GAY MOMENT??

LESSSGOOOO

blizzard this is the most complete sentence i couldve wrote

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Yesss, 100 % false reported.

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wait where’s the lie though

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Yeah, actually it does. The two are synonyms.

On top of that, snowflake doesn’t even mean that they are guaging whether or not someone is hurt. It’s not even in the definition of snowflake. You are right that offend is a stronger term, but you’re wrong about them not being synonyms.

Anyway snowflake means it’s too easy to annoy that person. They are too sensitive. It’s disparaging insult for thin-skinned

And getting so bent out of shape over an icon that you start hurling insults is quite thin-skinned.

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Gamers truly are the most oppressed minority. Society expects us to shower, put on deodorant, and be a decent human being.

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I cool with “Happy Who You Are” month.

It’s just I see pride reserved for a something you earn, not something you a genetically are. If you are happy being gay or a lesbian, awesome for you. But not pride.

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u are destroying them w facts and logic :sunglasses:

it means being prideful of being who you are lol

how would this be any different than, say, patriotism

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Well that’s not how the rest of the world uses pride. People take pride in their communities, pride in their country, etc.

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Eh, I guess if you stretch it, but they’re still not the exact same thing, and I think the “hurt” part is the key difference. What else would it be?

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Here’ a better response to answer of “pride”.

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Using a thesaurus to determine a synonym is stretching? Okay.

The key difference is in the intensity. You don’t have to feel hurt to feel offended. You might. Or you might just be really annoyed.

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George Carlin is actually correct that pride should be attained, but here’s the thing.

Coming out is the act of accepting and having others realize around you that you are [insert sect of LGBTQ+)

this is NOT easy to do. we do NOT live in a world where this is easily, universally accepted. if you have the strength to come out and/or show your true self around others, you then DEFINITELY have the right to be prideful of it and who you are.

You don’t need to “come out” as a black person or an American. those are simple truths. but you need to come out to be recognized by others as LGBT.

Edit: also, being a minority under a government that systematically disadvantages you, making everyday life harder on average, definitely is a pass for being prideful of your race.

what I don’t understand is patriotism; as countries are nebulous concepts only accepted due to the power that it holds. being born in a certain spot of the world doesn’t mean anything, especially when countries can stop existing so easily.

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It’s stretching because thesaurus doesn’t mention “offended” in annoyed, but it mentions annoyed in “offended.” So they’re pretty far from “exactly the same.”

Intensity? That’s possible. But to me, it’s the hurt that makes them different. Because that makes sense. You know, the whole “snowflakes crying” thing? You cry when you’re hurt. Makes a lot more sense.

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crying in that context is not literal; its generally meant to describe whining or anger. crying, malding, whining, etc.

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