On Being Offended: A Compilation

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

"If someone tells me I've hurt their feelings, I say I'm still waiting to hear what your point is." *Christopher Hitchens*

[@michaelmelro6641]

a douche to who? You? Because you had your personal feelings hurt? Still waiting to hear that point.

[@michaelmelro6641]

well you injected your personal opinion of him being a douchebag, so I injected you into my comment.

[@andrewblack4157]

the problem with this quote is that he is saying that being emotional is less than being 'rational'.

[@NYsummertimeCHI]

Jazzkeyboardist1 Someone should tell your mummy you're spending too much time on the internet when she's out of the house.

[@klyvemurray]

Jazzkeyboardist1 For someone who claims to dislike CH, your sure hang around the channels that offend you... I'm going to hazard a guess and say that you are in fact, obsessive...If you don't like CH then go watch something else. Kind regards, Cj Murray.

[@MasterSpade]

“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” - George Orwell Truth...it's the new Hate Speech “During times of universal deceit, telling the Truth becomes a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell

[@arvedludwig3584]

The problem is that a lot of people hide their hate speech under the right of free speech which is quite ironic since they want a system that bans some verbal nonsense people should be allowed to say and that should be discussed.

[@cheapbastard990]

It doesn't even matter if it's true! What matters is the freedom to speak.

[@1110-s1t]

@@arvedludwig3584 could you clarify please? Are you saying that the people who fight for hate speech laws are also hateful people but will use the free speech argument for their own stuff but not let others use it? Because I would agree with that. It's pretty normal behavior to be a hypocrite.

[@arvedludwig3584]

@@1110-s1t yes, that's what i want to point out. You see a lot of people being offended when you use facts, which are scientific proven, while they use just their opinion to convince the majority, simultaneously shuting you down as fake news which should be forbidden.

[@TravelWithBradley]

Why do you think the truth is somehow magically protected from being unoffensive? You can be offensive and not hateful, and you can be offensive and hateful. You twist shit so dishonestly :D, YOU are the problem.

[@patrickashurst4535]

in order to be able to think you have to risk being offensive.

[@khumomampuru5277]

Thanks Jordan

[@vardellsfolly5200]

Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens, two brilliant, beautiful minds..

[@action963]

Fry is a bunch of copy and paste...Hitchens actually had original ideas

[@TonyEnglandUK]

@@action963 Hitchens was a once-in-a-lifetime mind. They'll be quoting that man long after we've all passed.

[@action963]

@@TonyEnglandUK 100%

[@MrMarcusIndia]

George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens: Two brilliant, beautiful minds.

[@AFMMD-q8]

Once again throughout his speeches and many debates and books I'm 100% convinced Christopher Hitchens was the ultimate polymath, what a loss!! We need this man today more than ever, sorely missed.

[@AFMMD-q8]

Thank you for writing Sire, I wholeheartedly agree with you 100% and although English is my second language, I'm doing my best to learn it and to correct it, your resume is quite impressive, and as such you must be proud of your accomplishments, I know I am, for if we were a learned society we could find ourselves in a quest for continue knowledge and wisdom. On the other hand as today's generation are less capable of thinking and most probable to tune in keeping with the Kardashians {sic} I'm afraid that the abyss of mediocrity and ignorance is upon us. Cheers to us thinkers then, and my personal hero Christopher Hitchens a gentleman that inspired me to pick up literature books, inquire, and to think for myself, take care, best wishes to you.

[@harrydaniels7742]

You're a fucking idiot, dude. Who asked for your credentials, real or otherwise?

[@cnault3244]

@Jazzkeyboardist1 So armed only with the knowledge that his mother committed suicide you are able to create an entire scenario involving it being caused by his bullying? I guess it's easy to create fantasies when you don't have actual data to study.

[@cnault3244]

@Jazzkeyboardist1 "You failed to list an alternate fantasy. " I don't need to list an alternate anything. You have to prove what you are claiming. "So we agree Chrissy was the most hateful atheist in history?" Nope. I agree he was an atheist. "And Chrissy was the third most hateful person in history?" Nope. "His mother was having sex with a clergyman and you think Chrissy gave his blessing to the union?" Don't care who his mother was having sex with, don't care if he gave his blessing to it or not. It is none of my business... you seemed obsessed with it though. "proved that Chrissy Hitchens was a piece of shit" According to the Bible eating shit and drinking piss is just fine. "How many people did Chrissy BULLY in his life.." Disagreeing with someone and pointing out how ridiculous someone's beliefs are is not bullying them. " Besides diana etc " How did he bully Diana? And I have no idea who "etc" is.

[@chrissmith3652]

@...and you will know us by the Trail of Dead your narcissism is nauseating and beyond cringe inducing, please stop looking to so obviously pat yourself on the back at any opportunity to people you don't know. I feel like I need a shower after reading it.

[@Tommyr]

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~Tommy Smothers

[@Snaves]

2 great quotes from written interviews: "I see offence as collateral damage of free speech. I hate the thought of a person's ideas being modified or even hushed up because someone somewhere might not like to hear them. Outside actually breaking the law or causing someone physical harm "hurting someone's feelings" is almost impossible to objectively quantify. What some people find offensive, others will not. Such is life. Offence is rarely about right and wrong but rather about feelings. Feelings are personal. Trying to have a consensus about what is objectively offensive is rather like arranging books in a library in order of merit. We'd all have a completely different order in mind. We can't go round not saying what we want to say in case it offends someone somewhere. It will. Some people are offended by equality. Mixed marriage. Being gay. So you're offended? So fucking what!" ---Ricky Gervais "Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people. I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it. To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended." ---Salman Rushdie

[@eval_is_evil]

Snaves that is such a great speech

[@TheNewEmphinix]

Snaves My favorite is this one. "It's now very common to hear people say "I'm rather offended by that" as if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more, it's simply a whine. It's no more than a whine. "I find that offensive" it has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I am offended by that". Well so fucking what?" - Stephen Fry

[@5tonyvvvv]

Multiverses and a universe from "Nothing" (Quantum Vacuum) is unproven speculation... Its the same as saying "God did it"

[@gormhenriksen147]

Snaves well summarised.

[@venners77]

Jazzkeyboardist1 Huh?

[@thomaswalker2732]

We need Hitch more than ever.

[@misterjosephfloyd]

Tree I believe he lives on in Milo Y

[@chrisfields5326]

stop that

[@jeremyhunter2319]

@@misterjosephfloyd not in the slightest.

[@chickenchasr1]

If Christopher AND Peter Hitchens agree on something, we had better damn well listen

[@rohan81991]

misterjosephfloyd saying that is like saying LiL Xan is as good as Tupac

[@Tenorgeiger]

“I find that rather offensive.” “So fucking what?” Pure gold!

[@meh.7640]

this video is SIX YEARS OLD and the problem is still growing worse and worse! wtf is happening?!

[@MrUndersolo]

“You don’t have the right not to be offended!” - Penn Gillette Summed it up quite well...

[@craigluchin4585]

Mat 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

[@wswillett]

My response is..."I'm offended that you are offended" Case closed

[@narendrapanse7844]

That is something i could defend!

[@brokenrecord3523]

If you understood any of what was said in this video, you would know that your response, while having the illusion of cleverness is really, really stupid.

[@beerosaurusrex]

@@brokenrecord3523 It's holding the offended to their own standard. It's lampooning the initial claim by the offended. It's stupid because that's the intent, it's holding a mirror to the offended.

[@brokenrecord3523]

@@beerosaurusrex That's generous of you - kudos.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

I'm a web-programmer. I guarantee that each of you has experienced censorship here on KZbin if you've ever dared to comment outside the lines of their permission. The next time you wonder _"Why has no-one responded to that comment I made?"_ I'll tell you the answer - _"Because no-one can see it except you."_

[@Rabboleth]

Whatever else could be said of Orwell, he was right about language. One of the major steps to controlling thought is to take control over how thoughts are expressed. I think the reason for wanting to control what people put into their bodies or minds, matters less than the act of taking control. Social justice, patriotism, religion, even public decency, are just window dressing at that point, as they all end up as justifications for silencing dissent.

[@nuancecontraire]

@Gasparagus Productions id say his mentor Huxley was closer to the mark on how things are progressing, but we’ll see

[@bogusmcbogus2637]

Well said.

[@kantraxoikol6914]

very well said. and 100% right. so how do we fight the SJW who think being offended is their god given right on earth

[@skepticalobserver7484]

“As eloquent as ………. one of them was.” 😂😂😂😂 devastating.

[@cybrunel1016]

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

[@deanmoncaster]

Offence is taken, never given.

[@titteryenot4524]

The singular point so many seem to miss in the overheated ‘offence-speech’ debate is this: you cannot be offended against your will. You are complicit in the fact, or otherwise, of being offended. You hear something? Then you, there and then are free to be ‘offended’ (or not) by this. *You* have the power. A tiger’s roar has not the power to harm a living soul. A tiger’s paw does. 🐯

[@Hunter-yj6zb]

The real problem with offense today are not with the people who are offended but with the power and voice they are granted by others to oppress those they've deemed offensive. Government and corporations never seem to fail to fire, censor, and punish on the word of these child-like tyrants.

[@TravelWithBradley]

@1misanthropist "If you decide not to take offence,. you can't be offended" never was a more stupid thing wrote... Bravo.

[@user-bo3mp8un6c]

@Tobias Reiner Not completely actually, both are true. Don't rule out stupidity as a valid driving force for one's decisions.

[@oldbatwit5102]

The real problem with offense today are not with the people who are offended but with the power and voice they are granted by social media to harass those they've deemed offensive. The main targets of their wrath are government, the police, and science. Acting the offended victim seems to be the new favourite sport or pastime and social media gives them a platform they often don't deserve.

[@andrewpickering5180]

Those children are now adults.

[@egone61]

hear hear!

[@aceandreimirandilla5391]

Sometimes i dont wanna watch hitchen's vids, cause i miss him😖

[@TonyEnglandUK]

@MichaelKingsfordGray Christopher Hitchens would have verbally torn you limb-from-limb for that petty, unnecessary, desperate response. Your response is everything he was speaking out against, not for.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

@Jazzkeyboardist1 A religious person criticising an atheist's imaginary friend. Welcome to the Internet.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

@Jazzkeyboardist1 I worship at the altar of Christopher Hitchens. Superb orator, fantastic philosopher, unparalleled anti-theist.

[@madpax5000]

Such a foolish comment to make!

[@dineshdewanand3755]

I miss him too. Was 20plus year old when I got to his works. Now 35. He is a legend. Man crush.

[@robbabcock_]

Ah, Hitch...he was among the greatest of us. He is greatly missed.

[@sonnyirish3678]

Tell that to the people or Iraq.

[@Nastyfinger1444]

People are too easily offended. As a child, I often heard 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me'.

[@deanmoncaster]

Whips and chains excite you!

[@MrTheclevercat]

Its funny because as adults I found more and more people are actually like "you said a bad word I'm telling the teacher" and kids actually don't cry to the grownups every time.

[@fredb74]

"Being offended doesn't mean you're right." Ricky Gervais

[@nuancecontraire]

every year Hitch isnt here we seem to need him more and more

[@TonyEnglandUK]

I'm thankful I never had to debate Christopher Hitchens on any subject from religion to ketchup.

[@steelyfan7745]

could you imagine a world where no criticism is allowed...what would we become?

[@MasterApprentist]

Under rated comment.

[@steveath]

Just take KZbin - censorship is rife.

[@WISDOMBITES1]

There is a difference between constructive criticism and intending to offend to harm/demean and dehumanise which is what Hitchens seems to always do to play to the gallery.

[@grahamlyons8522]

The attempt to suppress opinions is always accompanied, as Hitchens says, "with a great deal of self-righteousness."

[@rkent06]

The right to offend is stratospherically more valid than the right not to be offended

[@TravelWithBradley]

Such a retarded statement to make in the first place.

[@andrewblack4157]

Valid by what objective standard I wonder.

[@Alltoofinite]

Andrew An objective standard of reasonableness ascertains the knowledge of a person by viewing a situation from the standpoint of a hypothetical reasonable person, without considering the particular physical and psychological characteristics of the defendant…. Figured I could answer your question with the definition of your words… the inability to accept being offended by words or speech… Is completely that persons responsibility. your responsibility to your own feelings are just that… Your own… Without an argument to the offense… Your feeling has little validity outside of your sphere of reality… That being said … Your argument to the offense (which may very well offend somebody) is your attempt at making that feeling valid That make sense?

[@andrewblack4157]

@@Alltoofinite not exactly what I meant. It's more a question about an original "ought/should" It is implied that someone ought, or should be willing to be offended (which I agree with) But.... If the universe came out of nothing, and for no reason, then being reasonable, unreasonable, sane, insane, loving, hating, etc., etc., etc. Also doesn't matter at all if following that line of reasoning.

[@Alltoofinite]

@@andrewblack4157 I understand… I would say that the original statement is clumsily worded… In that “the right to not be offended” does not exist… But the point is made… I guess I was just trying to show why the “more valid“ statement rings true in the context

[@MM-yi9zn]

An insurmountable loss. No one can replace this tremendous man.

[@adam_p99]

Both Hitchens brothers, Stephen Fry and Dawkins!! These guys would have been great UK political leaders.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

No-one worthy enough to be Prime Minister has ever stood to be Prime Minister.

[@paulharris3000]

I think Hegel was right. Humanity must, through trial and error, oscillate between extremes, and many times over, before arriving at workable models of order and governance. It's just the way it is...

[@caraxes_noodleboi]

@@middleagedwomanwithahandba2795 Damped harmonic motion or else we won't arrive at a perfect solution ever

[@craigluchin4585]

Jesus was and is right, Hegel is in the grave, Jesus rose from the dead, so the Living God is better than the dead lion.

[@Melesniannon]

@@craigluchin4585 Translation: the imaginary is better than the realistic. Under that notion, one can inflict violence upon anyone for any reason.

[@jokerbatman119]

So sad that Christopher Hitchens no longer fighting with us. He is a great guy who earn my salute

[@paulschlachter4313]

I've watched this video in 2022 and got some inspiration from Hitchens' words - so in a way he's still fighting the good fight with us.

[@K0bbii]

Having your thoughts challenged and your feelings hurt is key to human growth

[@1193mike]

When I was growing up I remember distinctly being told "you are going to have to do things you don't want to in life, and be around people you don't like, you have to learn to adapt to the world because it's not going to change for you." Well it appears the world is trying to change for every self entitled idiot with a loud mouth that stands in front of a camera crying "discrimination", and let me tell you the world was so much better off when people were taught at a young age to handle their emotions. Stop catering to everyone if there was no offence meant.

[@laqueenawilliams4762]

Sounds racist.

[@heinzhaupthaar5590]

@@laqueenawilliams4762 Can you explain why? Or is it simply that you feel vaguely offended but have no argument as to why whatsoever, and therefore no actual basis for your insulting claim?

[@KeiGambit]

@@heinzhaupthaar5590 Hitchens once said "If someone calls you a racist without evidence, tell them to fuck off"

[@gasgano8255]

In the same vein defending free speech also means clamping down on those who abuse it to harm others.

[@Alltoofinite]

@@gasgano8255 sounds like you mean censoring them… So we’ve come full circle again… Maybe if people weren’t harmed by words and took responsibility for their own feelings ….was what the original statement was … I would never want anyone who is speaking out against something I believe in “ clamped down on“… That just eventually gives them the right to”clamp down” on anything I want to say

[@TheNightshotBR]

The thumbnail is spot-on. "It´s offensive. So what?" Life is hard. Toughen up, buttercups.

[@Rofel_Wodring]

Christopher Hitchens was talking from a time in which right wingers/religious people dominated culture and were dictating what was/wasn't acceptable. I find this a great example on how things have flipped over the last half a decade. His speech can be used today to address the "progressive" censorship.

[@lostinlordran1121]

This.

[@MrTheclevercat]

In my life all censorship has been from the left trying to censor all normal people with normal opinions. Then, call then Nazis if they protest. Fuck the left. They can choke on my dick and die.

[@secondghost]

Offence is taken, not given.

[@faselfasel2864]

This is more relevant than ever considering the rise of "fact-checking" and censorship on youtube and the labeling of "misinformation"

[@1q34w]

Labeling something as misinformation is not censorship.

[@lyni50]

I’m so privileged to get the opportunity to listen to Christopher Hitchens. I wish everyone would listen to him.

[@jut8146]

Being offensive shall henceforth be a virtue.

[@davidshepherd397]

When I was a kid, people were only offended by rude comments and behaviors, not by ideas or opinions.

[@jamiebutler1762]

When I was a kid alot of people were offended by the rock music of the day. It was the old satanic panic in the 80s. Again it was the deity worshiping cult members that found it offensive.

[@davidshepherd397]

@@jamiebutler1762 Truly, and unlike a lot of things its music and for entertainment purposes, not necessarily a life plan. I'm sure that lots of rock songs have no meaning whatsoever except fun listening to and perhaps dancing.

[@HarryBalzak]

The only speech I would even consider outlawing is speech against free speech.

[@samfraley4570]

Harry Balzak paradox

[@HarryBalzak]

@@samfraley4570 Not really.

[@Haroon4Cesc]

That‘d be against free speech.

[@phoenixwright5743]

@@HarryBalzak It’s is paradoxical. you want freedom of speech yet you want to restrict speech?

[@terryboland3816]

So you don't think you should be allowed to say that.

[@lesnidge3412]

As Jimmy Carr has pointed out...."offense is not given but taken". So people can decide to take offense to anything they find offensive. As Mr. Hitchens quite correctly retorts, "So what is your point.?"

[@secondchance6603]

"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, For it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience." Henrey Steele Commanger

[@runthenumbers9698]

My favorite Hitchens quote is actually not a quote of Hitchens at all. It's a quote ABOUT Hitchens. "There's something especially galling about a man who speaks like he writes." -- Sam Harris -- It was a throwaway line of his talking about Hitchens, but I think it's my favorite description of Hitch.

[@Cosmic_God_Particals]

"You find me offensive? I find you offencive for finding me offensive." -Eminem

[@MrUndersolo]

Hey, that’s offensive!

[@Cosmic_God_Particals]

@Ilikebeaversandeaglesupyourass hay hay hay! Don't point out my intellectual inferiority! People might think that you need to make yourself look smart by leaving the most basic comment about other comments. Lol

[@DarscioStudios]

I would like but its on 69

[@craigluchin4585]

Prophecy comes true today, Matthew 24:10 "And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another." This verse is only one chronological verse away from 7-Year Tribulation Period. The Tribulation is very close, probably in this generation. Christians are warning you that the bridge is out ahead, go ahead without Christ in your heart, but for me and my household we serve the Lord Jesus who died for all that each person could be saved if hear God's word, and then believe them, receiving the Risen Christ they then can be saved.

[@aggravatedstrawberry]

You DO have the right to be offended but you DO NOT have the right to silence someone else.

[@richiejohnson]

Chewing gum and backwards hats, me too! I love this sassy man so much!

[@Kate-is5mz]

I have a saying that I've made up that works very well for me: ''Your feelings are your (and yours ONLY) responsibility.'' It's very simple, it's very true and when you practice that in real life things become much easier to process. Like, if what I say is my responsibility, then what I feel about what someone else is saying is ALSO solely my responsibility. I am the one that has to deal with it, not the speaker. We're all adults and our feelings (no matter how much someone has hurt us, even deliberately) are something that belongs exclusively to us, we have to live with them and deal with them. Every adult's responsibility is to keep their emotions in check, to recover, to discover etc... If someone puts their emotions into your hands as a responsibility, that person is immature and a plain child. That's the whole thing, it just makes 0 sense to expect others to handle OUR emotions. People can only help you cope, have empathy and be there for you, they can also hurt and destroy you. Big woof, welcome to the real world... where your life is your responsibility. Can't believe we have to teach grown adults this....

[@n3Cr0ManCeD]

"Free" speech has a cost. That cost is that sometimes you will hear things you don't like. "I'm offended" So what?

[@nigelcarren]

"I am offended!", congratulations... I hope you enjoy being offended. Right, tea or coffee?

[@MrUndersolo]

Coffee, please.

[@nigelcarren]

@@MrUndersolo Done.... sorry about the mug.. Damn, no biscuits!

[@Dranok1]

@@nigelcarren Well that's just darned offensive! And kindly don't swear over the table.

[@nigelcarren]

@@Dranok1 Thank you, now would you be kind enough to pass me the Soy Sauce please? (This scenario is now taking place in a Chinese restaurant on account of my being very hungry). Happy New Year to you, may all your dreams sprout wings this year! (Despite everything). 👍

[@Dranok1]

@@nigelcarren And what if I don't like sprouts, pray tell?

[@danieldunne68]

"So be offended, nothing will happen, you won't wake up in the morning and have leprosy. When did sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me stop being relivant". (Steve Hughes) great comedian.

[@kingquadroon]

For a fleeting moment, Peter Hitchens approached the eloquence of his brother.

[@maartenbucket2638]

Nimos Rellak thats offensive

[@filipevasconcelos4409]

Well, so fucking what?

[@TheGreatAlan75]

Best speech Peter Hitchens gave. I thought he was an idiot before

[@pelonp3691]

Nimos Rellak peter is great, even if you disagree with him

[@mebinvader1286]

Pelon 003 Exactly disagreeing allows people to give new ideas.

[@bobbyunavailable]

The Hitchens Brothers - the best tag-team champions we never had.

[@MasterSpade]

"Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain." -- A.C. Grayling

[@adlockhungry304]

Lying Almond, I understand why you’d think that. Reading history and witnessing contemporary politics has given me a rather cynical view at times, however I’m not sure the data can really support the conclusions of my more cynical self. In particular I think it can be shown rather convincingly that the most secular societies have the least violence, teen pregnancy, and such while having overall greater levels of “happiness” based on poll responses. Certainly no smoking gun, but at the very least worth taking into serious consideration. Here’s an article that articulates this point way better than I could ever hope to: www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2017/11/30/why-the-world-is-getting-better-why-hardly-anyone-knows-it/amp/

[@adlockhungry304]

The article is more about global progress in general, but it’s sorta what I was driving at.

[@adlockhungry304]

Lying Almond, Telllll me about it! I’m primarily left leaning living in the SF Bay Area. The butthurt PC police around here are exasperating! :-)

[@adlockhungry304]

Lying Almond, hah! I bet we could both tell some stories about the crazies in our respective hoods.

[@adlockhungry304]

Lying Almond, btw, checked out your vid on the TC-38 gas mask. That was pretty cool.

[@markhorvath9108]

I envy this man's eloquence. Nothing is sharper than a strong mind.

[@anitahyche1]

Somebody actually asked me to respect the beliefs of others religions. Specifically the crazy evangelicals. I said no. I will not respect their beliefs. I can love them without it.

[@MixUpTheVideos]

I would have asked how that respect would be advertised.

[@cheapbastard990]

There is no obligation to respect anyone's beliefs, but only an obligation to respect the rights of every individual to express their beliefs.

[@kekwokeson6499]

Censorship of language is linguistic fascism.

[@TheSmurf1973]

I am a big fan of the "oh you're offended? That's your problem" philosophy in life.

[@Dennzyl]

"to each its own!" that basically sums it up!

[@avesatanas7752]

The 4th Tenet of The Satanic Temple: The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo your own.

[@jilliansmith7123]

Hey, Ave Satans: we like all the tenets of the Satanic Temple! How you doin'? Good to see you here!

[@satanist5707]

_Ave Satanas._

[@Fingersofjoy]

Bottom line is..offence cannot be given it can only be taken so if somebody says they are offended then they chose to be so don't blame others for your own choice.

[@MAX-tw3qz]

" Blessed are those who take no offense". The rest are wicked, infantile drivelling fools, unfit for intellectual discourse and emotionally incontinent.

[@frozentspark2105]

Got this recommended in '22 and wow was I glad 👍👍

[@RattleheadUK]

Hitch, it’s a good job you left us dude, 2020 is your worst fucking nightmare. The offended have won.

[@kenkonundrum5538]

One could argue that, if anyone has a claim to being offended, it is actually non-believers/free-thinkers having their intelligence offended by religious preaching and symbols, etc.

[@kyrisgeorgiou9197]

Betrayal is offensive. Injustice is offensive. The lying government, media, schools, universities etc are offensive. But people whine about "offensive" words. They are not only egotistical maniacs lacking self-respect but also hypocrites lacking a truthful perspective of their society.

[@psycheevolved1428]

Everyone has the right to be offended but everyone has the right to give no fucks

[@orangefield100]

Check out the " Count Dankula and the Nazi dog" story to be aware of how things have deteriorated .

[@nowthatsjustducky]

One can not give offense. One can only take offense.

[@johnberryconwayiii7071]

I miss Hitch so much, what I would give to have seen him and had a drink.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

Well, several drinks.

[@drdassler]

I'm deeply offended by ignorance & stupidity. It can never be eradicated.

[@MrAdryan1603]

My heroes :o) I cannot WAIT until we eradicate the scourge of religion from our world. Ohhh, just thinking about all these people not being tied down by ridiculous, ancient writings that have no relevancy in our age... the religious violence and wars and genocide we've been enduring for thousands of years.... this all has to go. I love how they're putting people in their place about being "offended" over such tiny and harmless words and phrases. Love it

[@uthoshantm]

Adrian D You will be left with multinationals using government resources to wage war for access to cheap natural resources. The old pretext was to spread the true religion, the new pretext is to fight extremism and spread democracy. Ever heard of Iraq?

[@Ericwvb2]

You're in for a very long wait. In many Western countries, people are becoming less religious, but the native population of those countries is shrinking. 99% of future population growth is coming from developing nations, where religion is as popular as ever. By 2050, the religiously unaffiliated will actually decline as a percentage of world population (16.4 to 13.2) while the number of Muslims will increase sharply (23.2 to 29.7).

[@a_passing_cloud]

This is brilliant and gives me new words to use, as these are ideas that I often attempt to get people to see.

[@sign543]

When somebody tells me what I said offended them....I ask what it was I said...so I can say it again. :P

[@Nodrodsky]

People get offended because they choose to be.

[@PanglossDr]

People need to be reminded that offence is not given, it is taken. If people choose to be offended, tough shit.

[@TheAtheist22]

Peter Hitchens’ speech, moments of brilliance! A proof that he’s not only related to Hitch in terms of genes but also in terms of fighting spirit.

[@titteryenot4524]

The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is the one of ‘taking offence’. Note ‘taking’. No one can be offended against their will. You are fully complicit in the act of ‘being offended’. The only long-term solution to this is obvious. Train oneself to not be offended. By anything. Don’t hitch yourself so tightly to this or that identity (family, tribe, nation, religion, sex, sports team etc) such that when someone else says something, anything, about the aforementioned it will be impossible for you to take offence, quite simply as you have refused to subsume so much of your identity in the perceived target another attacks.🤓

[@terryboland3816]

Nope, 'taking offence' is not the greatest problem humanity has always faced. Malaria probably is.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@terryboland3816 Vastly more humans have been/are killed as a result of ‘taking offence’ than they ever were by malaria, Tel. Why, as we speak, we have a wee Napoleon figure in the east brooding on his personal offence taken since the loss of Cold War by the USSR in 1989. People taking offence at something: religion, nationality, tribe, clan, family, football team, has been the biggest problem we have always had, son. Think on.

[@terryboland3816]

@@titteryenot4524 Google ' how many people die of malaria' and then come back, son.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@terryboland3816 It’s actually close, so we are both off the mark. Upwards of 2 billion people have been murdered directly as a result of war. This figure doesn’t include the ‘collateral damage’ which would dramatically increase it. Malaria has killed a similar number in history.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@terryboland3816 The *big* difference however, Tel, is that we have the most complex thing that we know of residing in our noddles. Mosquitoes are a little, well, unevolved, in comparison, and lacking a free will, so we can excuse them their slaughter. I know human free will is up for debate, but this notwithstanding, one would have thought that after about 300,000 years of Homo Sapiens we would have progressed beyond exterminating others of our species just because they happen to uphold other opinions and ways of life.

[@EleanorPeterson]

6:40 Poor old Peter Hitchens. (Yep, he's Christopher's kid brother.) Raised as a Christian, turned atheist in his teens, then got swallowed up again by the Church of England later in life. I think he got back into religion just so that he and his brother would have something to argue about. 🤭

[@Mrbfgray]

Thank GOD for my right to Blasphemy. At least we haven't violated that particular right yet in America.

[@madman2u]

Why are you thanking your imaginary friend?

[@fainitesbarley2245]

Cos he’s the only one who understands

[@Gyrannon]

we have, many times beyond counting.

[@Mrbfgray]

@@madman2u Surely you didn't really miss the irony there.

[@Mrbfgray]

@@Gyrannon Not on a legal level we haven't, you can go to prison for it in much of Europe.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

How ironic that this was CENSORED for fear of causing offence!

[@iannamico]

If you're offended that is a you problem, not a me problem.

[@farmpite]

Thats offensive ... as if they constitutes an argument. Brilliant

[@zetacrucis681]

I am offended by the censorship imposed on Richard Dawkins' speech 6:04

[@TonyEnglandUK]

Man, I wish I could lip-read well enough to see what he said.

[@jfakoggl]

I don't remember who said that, but 'JUST BECAUSE IT'S YOUR OPINION, IT DOESN'T CHANGE REALITY' is a great quote!

[@krishpatel3156]

That's like just another version of "FACTS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS"

[@leglessinoz]

To be offended or insulted, I'd first have to respect the opinion of the person making the statement. Don't get me wrong, I respect people's rights to hold opinions but I do not have to respect those opinions.

[@drkmattrchscake4237]

lol wasn't expecting Opie and Anthony!! Nice compilation

[@rayrous8229]

Often saying "I'm offended" is an opening to explain why they are offended. You are invited to say "Why are you offended?" And have your offensive opinion challenged. Be ready for a challenge.

[@bryanjohnston1490]

Peter Hitchins came on and all the dogs in my neighbourhood started barking

[@Bokkie100k]

DON'T WATCH this video, it's very offensive!

[@consciousbeing1188]

As an Australian I'm reminded of the words of comedian Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias who said; "Australians DO NOT CARE about your feelings"... Never truer words were spoken.

[@kevincharbonneau5953]

Canada! huge censorship.

[@mofo6724]

I'll decide! Do whatever you want as long as it doesn't impede on other people's lives. Being offended doesn't count.

[@infinitesentient3545]

You left out one of the best clips on being offended. Steve Hughes "offended" look it up, at least XD

[@drdassler]

Infinite Sentient right, be offended, nothing happens. 🤣

[@firsttheycame0211]

A very funny man. "I'm offended by boy bands for gods sake"

[@adamels9504]

this video is offensive, take it down.

[@royw-g3120]

Was chewing gum when Dawkins came on. Felt like apologising!

[@vashna3799]

Although I'll always be in Brother Christopher's camp , Peter when he can, cut through the bullshit just as well. Except when religion comes though sadly.

[@Teabonesteak]

2:16-2:32 "Sinister piffle" Did you see the smile MELT from her face once she realized everyone laughing AT HER and not with him...I will be back.

[@BillieJolene1]

Peter Hitchens was on point FOR ONCE. Odd this kind of sense coming from him. He's a religious fanatic. And they are EXACTLY the kind of people he was speaking of.

[@roxammon5858]

I like the comment made by Benny Hill when someone said to him "I have never been so insulted in my life". He replied "you get around more!".

[@blahblah63259]

It offends me that Louie is so anti-sjw in his comments here yet he was one of them when he sent emails to his fans calling trump hitler and telling people to vote for hilary.

[@RadishAcceptable]

Anti Trump =/= SJW, dumbass.

[@MJW238]

Crystal Logik Calling political opponents Hitler has a long history - nothing to do with being an “SJW” or whatever other silly modern term you like to throw about.

[@danevans6340]

The Louie clip actually ruins this in many ways, because without it, what you've got are premier intellectuals of the G W Bush era criticising the censorious right wing in a way which now applies to the left. Also, despite being comedians the people in the Louie clip exhibited the least wit, humour, and rhetorical flourish.