Saying you are offended by something because of “it’s history” is basically saying you don’t actually have a reason to be offended but you decided to make one up.
Think about it; if someone calls me a piece of shit, I’m not offended because of the history of the word shit, I’m offended because of what the person *explicitly means* by their statement in this current interaction.
However if someone beside me said, “can you believe this shit?” in a friendly, joking manner about a ridiculous event, but then I get horribly offended because of some distant history where speaking about shit during casual conversation with someone was an insult that they were of lower status and didn’t deserve to be treated with dignity… well then I’m just being a moron. I actively hunted for some reason to be offended by something, by dragging the context of hypothetical conversations of which I played no part, with people I have never interacted with and don’t know, from hundreds of years in the past, and then arbitrarily placed that meaning into my current conversation, and then got pissed at my friend who in no way was using it to indicate I was of lower class then he. To the contrary, he has absolutely no clue what I’m talking about and now has no interest in telling me about the funny event that took place, and possibly not being my friend either.
Just saying 🤷🏻♂️
