Because that would be offensive – it would be offensive to anyone in the room who has an adopted child or is an adopted child.
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This wasn't meant to be offensive or hurt anyone's feelings.
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That also could be offensive to a lot of people.
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This is not meant to be offensive in any way.
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We recognize that it could be offensive and sincerely apologize.
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Things we say today might be offensive in the future.
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And had no idea that this would be offensive to anyone.
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FOWLER: I actually think -- I actually think that would be offensive.
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This column contains language that might be offensive to some readers.
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As for the Chinkees, the name was meant to be offensive.
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The archbishop also found the singer's stage name to be offensive.
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""People just shouldn't be offensive to our buses or our kids.
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This story contains language that may be offensive to some readers.
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Mr. Crowder said the comments were not meant to be offensive.
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I've said things without thinking about it — not trying to be offensive.
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Whether or not he meant to be offensive is besides the point.
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"I just find the position to be offensive," resident Lorri Tamburro said.
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The language he uses might be offensive (or hilarious) to some viewers.
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At worst, the term is thought by some there to be offensive.
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What might be offensive to one person might appear harmless to another.
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Martsinkevich told BuzzFeed News she had no idea her makeup would be offensive.
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Doesn't have to be offensive, you don't have to engage in name calling.
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No one has complained, but I worry that the odors could be offensive.
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"A word can be offensive simply because of its history," Mr. Nunberg said.
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"It never entered our mind" that the statue might be offensive, she said.
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"Mando" A nickname for Mandalorians that kinda feels like it may be offensive.
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These stereotypes may be offensive, but there is a certain validity to them.
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"All year long has it been right to [be] offensive or defensive?" he said.
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Social-media platforms continually censor content that they judge to be offensive or illegal.
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But if you played "Ave Maria" in those painting galleries, it might be offensive.
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Even though these murals can be offensive, they express a part of our history.
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And that might be offensive to some people but don't let your heart be offended.
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No I am not prejudiced, this song should be offensive to anyone with a brain.
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I apologize to Kellyanne Conway and everyone who has found my comments to be offensive.
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" The statement includes language long known to be offensive, most notably the phrase "illegal aliens.
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I've been attacked for my silly comments, which truly were not meant to be offensive.
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It would be offensive for Queen Elizabeth or her representatives in Canada, New Zealand, etc.
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His statements, he says, were taken out of context and weren't intended to be offensive.
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But hyperbolic reductionism of this sort will be offensive to the vast majority of historians.
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The examples of content that could be offensive to "others" in your community are outrightly racist.
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They aren't thrilled by his campaign and say his rhetoric is extreme and can be offensive.
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"The investigation found that the cadets did not intend to be offensive," Citadel president Lt. Gen.
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"I personally find that to be offensive," said the head of the immigration department, Michael Pezzullo.
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"I don't know how my comments would be offensive to Jewish Americans," Omar said Thursday morning.
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If there is even doubt that something you like or post might be offensive, remove it.
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But this is a different type of comedy — offensive comedy or comedy that could be offensive.
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To their growing discomfort, some viewers and critics are finding Mr. Baldwin's behavior to be offensive.
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Never mind that Ms. Aniston herself finds that view of a woman's happiness to be offensive.
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" The listing went on to say that, "This is not meant to be offensive in any way.
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Patrik Laine, Mark Scheifele and Nikolaj Ehlers look like they'll be offensive forces for years to come.
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"The cadets did not intend to be offensive," said the Citadel's president, retired Lieutenant General John Rosa.
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At first, they were afraid the hashtag would be offensive to women, Mr. Uyghur said by telephone.
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" With Halloween weekend approaching, we suggest you ask yourself a question Reinhart should've considered, "Could this be offensive?
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Many of the ways you act at home or with friends may be offensive in a work environment.
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"The Kentucky Democratic Party finds this ad to be offensive and appalling given its imagery," the tweet said.
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One possible way to do this would be to age-gate content that might be offensive to minors.
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Apart from being generic and giving off an impersonal vibe, this one can be offensive to the recipient.
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Cedric Richmond: "I apologize to Kellyanne Conway and everyone who has found my comments to be offensive." pic.twitter.
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Lewis also questioned government enforcement of sexual harassment, asking when it was illegal to be offensive in America.
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"What may seem inoffensive to you could be offensive to others in your community," the slide presentation later warns.
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Can you see how that would be offensive to the 45 percent of the country that supports this President?
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Not enough to be offensive though—especially when I turned the music on with a tap of the earcup.
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The law comes with the threat of jail time and fines for what Russia deems to be offensive speech.
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Why not simply ban a user for good if their comment is found by the group to be offensive?
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The name would be offensive in Vietnam for converse reasons: you do not name simple restaurants for national heroes.
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Since then Trump hasn't done or said anything that would be offensive to Jews or empowering to anti-Semites.
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Even if you don't consider the message to be offensive, it's essentially the same as talking behind someone's back.
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"At first I wanted to make people see how what they're doing might be offensive," Mr. Marquez, 29, said.
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That would seem to be offensive goaltending, since the ball was directly over the basket when Chandler touched it.
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The president of Yale may find the sight of John Calhoun's name emblazoned above a dorm building to be offensive.
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"I don't mean this to be offensive..." they said, turning to me, in that way that preludes something probably offensive.
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If you're trying to make a match happen just because they're both gay or both Black, that can be offensive.
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Twitter is testing a new feature that will automatically hide direct messages that its automated systems think could be offensive.
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"South Park" has never been afraid to be offensive, which is why the show now virtually no longer exists in China.
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We also find out Eli is blind during the episode through a few "jokes" that will likely prove to be offensive.
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I thought I hit my forehand great and made it really tough for him to be offensive, which is his game.
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The cereal company tweeted a tribute to Prince following his death—one that many have found to be offensive and tasteless.
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Now, focus groups evaluated a handful of films and television shows in terms of their impression of what might be offensive.
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Carlson's sentiments should be offensive to all Americans -- especially the thousands of Hispanic-Americans who have served in the US military.
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One can only wonder how many trademarks have been refused registration because certain groups of people found them to be offensive.
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Gase also hired Dowell Loggains from the Miami Dolphins to be offensive coordinator, and kept the special-teams coordinator Brant Boyer.
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"We had no intention to be offensive to other cultures," the couple said in a statement sent to the Des Moines Register.
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I don't mean to be offensive, but in my eyes the "cuisine" enjoyed by the people of those villages was equally primitive.
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When you opt in, using YouTube you subject yourself to material that may be offensive to your way of thinking or your Norm.
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"Why do people use Halloween as a time to be offensive?" asks Jamia Wilson, the executive director of Women, Action and the Media.
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Warning: We've shared a censored version of the GIF below, but it still includes graphic content that may be offensive to some users.
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"I'm more than happy to say, 'I'm sorry' if I offended somebody out there, but it wasn't intended to be offensive," Kasich said.
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She took her issues to the principal, who apologized and said it was not mean to be offensive and would not happen again.
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However, words do matter and there are times when a poorly turned phrase, especially by a public figure, can be offensive to some.
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Now, there are ways to do that and be offensive, but half the time it's that people are just sanctioned and left confused.
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" The Kentucky Democratic Party said in a tweet Thursday morning that it "finds this ad to be offensive and appalling given its imagery.
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We've shared a censored version of the image below, but warning, it still includes graphic content that may be offensive to some users.
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Pursuing this path will be offensive even to such leaders as Argentina's Mauricio Macri and Chile's Sebastian Piñera, successful entrepreneurs and now presidents.
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Regardless, she claims that she deleted her Facebook post almost immediately, when a friend called and expressed concern that it might be offensive.
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I never found the Omega Professional brush to be offensive, but a mild aroma was noticeable for a while before eventually dissipating altogether.
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An image of Bruce Willis holding a machine gun in the movie "Die Hard," for example, would not be offensive to most people.
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Based on that initial data set, the algorithm works to find keywords and patterns that suggest a new message might also be offensive.
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That elected government representatives so willingly and routinely dismiss the opinions of such groups of Americans as "special interests" ought to be offensive.
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Mr. Dawkins said he objected to the idea that speakers who might be offensive should be turned away from institutions of higher learning.
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His auto-da-fey stylings — twinkle-toes pirouettes and pursed-lip mincing — ought to be offensive but somehow wind up as poetry instead.
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This particular strain of hate speech is too tired and played out to be offensive anymore, and its usage is such a fallback.
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It can be offensive when there is an undercurrent of racism in his acceptance of white nationalist protesters or his defense of Confederate statues.
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Gusto's code of conduct "specifically prohibits a memo like Damore's," Reeves said, if the memo would be offensive to individuals in a protected group.
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It might be offensive but it's just a safe place to talk about things that we thought we were all alone in dealing with.
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"Some people can get into an argument and be offensive and walk away, just like some can try coke and walk away," Dave says.
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When a flag was thrown, the crowd did not react, since it appeared the most likely result would be offensive pass interference on Perriman.
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In fact, after the election, political comments on Reddit were about 20 percent more likely to be offensive than those posted about other topics.
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After several shoppers spotted the pieces at the Canadian department store, they alerted blogger Jewish Chick via Instagram about what they'd interpreted to be offensive.
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I was on chat on with them and then finally got this email where they really clearly said, 'We find your message to be offensive.
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It's unclear if the video was meant to be offensive and shocking to get more views and publicity, but if it is real it's gross.
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In April, the school revised its Freedom of Expression policy, re-emphasizing the school's commitment to free speech — even when the speech may be offensive.
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Or does the reality that some members of the community find the paintings to be offensive, dehumanizing and inappropriate for a high school take precedence?
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If we aren't dealing with the fallout of public officials being caught wearing blackface, we're seeing outcries over products that may or may not be offensive.
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The players have to decide whether to be offensive or defensive, to calculate the best attack, but most importantly plan for what their opponent will do.
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Elsewhere on the internet, though, the unchecked invective that frequently accompanies disturbing content in the form of user comments can be offensive in its own right.
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That could include "contact that would be offensive to an ordinary sense of personal dignity such as an unwanted kiss" bestowed without consent, she said. Rarely.
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The CEO said in a statement on Wednesday that his comments, which "were made informally at a private gala dinner," were not meant to be offensive.
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The quarantine represents a middle-ground approach — a way to deal with communities that engage in behavior that, while permitted, may be offensive to average users.
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Kozoll says that the same message might be offensive to one person but totally innocuous to another—so it would rather surface anything that's potentially problematic.
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Mr. Neupane did not say who had initiated the complaint or which of Mr. Penner's many social media posts about Nepalese politics were found to be offensive.
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Driver previously defended the team's use of a logo depicting an austere looking American Indian wearing a headdress, explaining that it is not meant to be offensive.
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A photo from the march displayed at the National Archives was altered to blur signs that were critical of President Trump or might be offensive, officials said.
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Amy, there is a laundry list of reasons why we don't want or have kids, but it would be offensive and irrelevant in my position to share.
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"As the leader in Halloween, Party City has costumes for all types of Halloween customers and nothing we carry is meant to be offensive," the statement said.
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The neo-Nazi right values its ability to be offensive when the end goal is to subjugate marginalized groups like immigrants, people of color, and the LGBTQ community.
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If we cheer on Facebook and Twitter as they remove from their platforms people we find offensive, what happens when somebody finds something we say to be offensive?
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There's a part of me that gets giddy inside when I know there's a question that—even though guests know what they're in for—it still can be offensive.
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" Although the company says that the images were not intended to be offensive, a client services employee acknowledged that Prada had received "tons of feedback that this is offensive.
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In the Civility mind-set, an idea might be offensive but if enough people have that idea, then it deserves a fair hearing — and a seat — at the table.
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It was the latest political conflagration for the second-term governor, who has survived a series of controversies over comments perceived by observers to be offensive and racially charged.
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That said, if any comments made in the past were found to be offensive or made anyone uncomfortable, that was certainly never my intent and I am deeply sorry.
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Milo's strategy of destroying political correctness by proving you can be offensive and maintain a platform is about as direct a way of doing this as you can imagine.
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It is considered by many to be offensive both due to the use of the outdated and derogatory term of the Innuit people and also its racist and sexual connotations.
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He apparently intended for the remarks to convey his antipathy to racism, but multiple individuals on the call found them to be offensive, a source familiar with the matter said.
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According to the ICRC, the Ottoman Empire first used a red crescent during a war with Russia in 1876 because bearing a Christian symbol would be offensive to Muslim soldiers.
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"While this display may be offensive to many of us, please know that each and every one of us has rights and protections under the United States Constitution," Mendez wrote.
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Others weren't so lucky: these days, people in Thailand can get in serious trouble for posts on social media — if they are deemed to be offensive to the royal family.
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But, that's nothing when compared to the political fallout from even a single one of the 11 saying something to Ford that is deemed to be offensive, bullying or inappropriate.
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Ahead, we talk to Billie about why compliments like Jax's can be offensive, the pros and cons of living "stealth," and what it's really like to date as a trans woman.
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Companies hire these people to be online after major events or news goes live, so they can clean up comments and reactions that might be offensive or just internet robot nonsense.
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In a Long Island comedy club last month, he seemed to go out of his way to be offensive and bullying, even mocking survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
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"A ref will yell, 'Willie, watch it, don't push off there,'" Ravens wide receiver Willie Snead IV said, referring to a shove of a defender that might be offensive pass interference.
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That this administration is doing so may be offensive, but it should be no surprise, given that its immigration crackdown is already distinguished by simple cruelty toward families and working people.
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Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has strict anti-pornography laws and authorities are increasingly seeking to censor online content they deem to be offensive or a threat to national unity.
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Despite warning him that the phrase would be offensive, and probably a bad idea, in June it was emblazoned in the title of a White House report on China's intellectual property practices.
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Young men trying to be offensive or provocative might share a meme because they think it is funny or cool, not because they are looking to be radicalized, Dr. Miller-Idriss said.
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Debbie Dingell, of Michigan, argued all members need to spend more time learning why language can be offensive because not everyone understands the meaning behind a wide array of stereotypes and tropes.
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In 2016, after deeming an MTV News piece by critic David Turner to be "offensive," Chance and his management threatened that they would no longer work with the company in any capacity.
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"I can't see how a good-looking girl standing with a driver and a number in front of a Formula One car can be offensive to anybody," said the 87-year-old Briton.
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But then realized why it was perceived to be offensive afterward: McGuire also released a statement, citing the length of their relationship and saying that he wished he chose his words more carefully.
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Because Jägermeister has used those symbols for decades, the judges said that Jägermeister had "weakened its religious character," which makes it less likely to be offensive as, like, an improperly appropriated Christian symbol.
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If you were the kind of person wanting to use the Harambe meme as an excuse to be offensive and juvenile in the name of whimsical fun, then the Harambe meme was all yours.
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Garlick also explained how content was reviewed after it was flagged by users who found it to be offensive, though it was unclear how many people fluent in Burmese language were doing this work.
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" In his statement, Freeman added that Hunt "remembers looking for a script but does not remember the detail of touching anyone's shoulders, and if he did that, it was not intended to be offensive.
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But later productions revealed that other actors could not provide the same nuance and texture "so the character comes across underwritten and as a stereotype that might be offensive to soldiers," Mr. Joseph said.
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" In addition to Restrict, there's also a new AI-powered feature that notifies users that their comment might be offensive before it's posted, with the prompt: "Are you sure you want to post this?
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It is a liberal vision, but a cramped one, emphasizing one sort of freedom over all others: the freedom to be wrong, to be offensive, to be exempt from any obligation to anyone else.
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The social media company is trying to find a way of maintaining its standards while adding context to tweets from politicians and other figures that may be offensive but are important for public debate.
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You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive.
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"There may be specific areas where bespoke solutions could work and would not be offensive either to the government in the Republic or to unionists' interests in Northern Ireland," he told the parliament's Treasury Committee.
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"It would certainly be offensive if airlines who rely on publicly supported infrastructure and have been bolstered by American taxpayers for nearly a century used this opportunity to impose unconscionable costs on consumers," they wrote.
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More than half of them are now either awaiting trial in prison, or serving jail terms for peccadilloes such as "liking" things on Facebook deemed by the junta to be offensive to the royal family.
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To successfully navigate this terrain, one must have a deep sympathy for those who feel marginalized, while understanding that the traditions of free speech require us to allow many forms of speech that might be offensive.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is working with Indonesia to tackle video content deemed to be offensive, including material that might incite violence or hate speech, a senior official of the search giant said on Friday.
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"We looked over the photo, and though it doesn't go against one of our specific Community Standards, we understand that it may still be offensive to you and others," Facebook wrote to her in an email.
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Today it began alerting users that the caption they're about to post on a photo or video could be offensive or seen as bullying, offering them a chance to edit the text before they post it.
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But you know, I was always bumping against these things, where I couldn't totally be a guy, and where it was frustrating and it was upsetting and it could be offensive and it could be heartbreaking.
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"I find the interference by the government into women's reproductive health to be offensive," Amy Hagstrom Miller, president of Whole Woman's Health which runs three facilities in Texas, told U.S. District Court Judge Sam Sparks in Austin.
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"The same parts of his personality that caused him to sometimes be offensive to people are the same qualities that made him a revolutionary," said Ms. Pooser, who now is a consultant in the health care industry.
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First of all, it's important to remember that Halloween and Dia de los Muertos are not the same thing, so showing up to a Dia de los Muertos parade or festival with something untraditional can be offensive.
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Melandri told Hyperallergic that internal conversations did occur about whether some images could be offensive particularly when shown in St. Louis, which is why the museum did plan, from the beginning, to address such concerns in public forums.
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I feel that it is inappropriate for songs with sexual lyrics and swear words to be played in a public work environment as it is disrespectful to both employees and patrons who find such content to be offensive.
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After months had been spent negotiating better terms for Britain to try to keep it in the EU, it would now be "offensive" if there were further drawn-out negotiations over the procedures for its exit, Renzi said.
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" He also said, "As A.I. tools get better and better, will be able to proactively determine what might be offensive content or violate some rules, what therefore is the responsibility and legal responsibility of companies to do that?
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"Of course, I'm more than happy to say I'm sorry if I offended somebody out there but it wasn't intended to be offensive and if you hear the whole thing, you'll understand the context of it," Kasich told CNN.
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"[The bylaw] has the potential to catch a lot of expression that isn't necessarily harmful or that may be offensive to individuals but actually has a valuable purpose," Cara Zwibel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association told VICE News.
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So, while the bill might have allowed police more freedom to make arrests for what they deem to be offensive behaviour at a football match, this doesn't quite line up with what the courts rule to be against the law.
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Relatedly, the White House Gift Shop was also reluctant to put Kim Jong Un's face on one of the coins because they were worried it might be offensive to the South Korean customers whom they said were its primary buyers.
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But even if, after some scrutiny, Netflix's belated admission is found to be offensive to the spirit, if not the letter of the law, this is not the greatest offense in the whole sorry history of the FCC's net neutrality campaign.
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The Republican approach may be offensive, but the wily Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and his ilk have accurately concluded that it works with the Trump base, who want broad strokes and brute force instead of nuance and thoughtful discourse.
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Rather than act decisively by banning certain types of behavior and allowing others, Twitter's policy and engineering teams sometimes de-emphasize content and allow users to hide content that may be offensive but not explicitly against the platform's terms of service.
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First, an essential and defining mission of higher education is to be welcoming and inclusive for all students, regardless of their backgrounds and experiences and to encourage diversity of thought and expression, even when certain views may be offensive to some.
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The First Amendment protects freedom of speech -- including speech that may be offensive -- but not true threats, incitements to violence, fighting words or harassment, said Tori Ekstrand, a professor at the University of North Carolina's school of media and journalism.
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"I'm very pleased that he has apologized but rather surprised at his lack of sensitivity and knowledge that a sign like this could prove to be offensive," Rabbi Herschel Gluck, the president of Shomrim in Stamford Hill, told the Guardian.
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The order challenges a federal law that denies trademark recognition to names determined to be offensive, teeing up an issue that could determine the fate of the name of the Washington Redskins football team, which is currently in Appeals Court. . . .
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Those who don't see blackface as a problem debate that the act doesn't fall into this category because people in blackface don't mean to be offensive, despite the practice long being used to dehumanize black Americans and position them as inferior to whites.
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As part of baseball's new CBA, "requiring, coercing or encouraging" players as "dressing up as women or wearing costumes that may be offensive to individuals based on their race, sex, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identify or other characteristic" is now forbidden.
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It was all so exaggerated that it couldn't possibly be offensive—okay, perhaps for an elderly relative who'd never watched Evil Dead II. And, again, I set about noting down all the ways to maximize the melted flesh and severed limbs on show.
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"Regardless of what one thinks of NIFLA's views, the idea that the government can compel the speech of an organization — simply because it dislikes their motivating belief — should be offensive to liberal and constitutional values," he wrote in an op-ed for Forbes.
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Ide writes about the hostility among ethnic groups — notably black gangs and Chinese triads (whose members' affectation of American gang habits comes in for some mockery, though their toughness does not) — in ways that would be offensive if they weren't equal-opportunity insults.
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Kellyanne Conway was shown repeatedly trying to make Mr. Trump understand how his words could be offensive to women, particularly talking about the weight of Alicia Machado, the Miss Universe pageant entrant who became a flash point at the end of the campaign.
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Read more: Trump said 'I don't have a Racist bone in my body' as he slammed criticism of his racist tweetsSo rather than outright removing speech considered worth preserving, Twitter is putting it behind a notification warning users that its content may be offensive.
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"The University's fundamental commitment is to the principle that debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrongheaded," they wrote, in part.
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One of New York's most visible and colorful officials, Mr. Stern was a small, rumpled man who looked like a leprechaun, sounded like Woody Allen and said precisely what he was thinking most of the time, even if it was found to be offensive.
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John LewisJohn LewisCummings invites Trump to visit Baltimore House Democrat knocks Trump's Cummings tweet: 'This guy is a terrible, terrible human being' George Wallace's daughter: 'I saw Daddy a lot' during 2016 election MORE (D-Ga.), who said he did not find the comments to be offensive.
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That doesn't mean you have the right to be offensive after hours, it just means that if you want to whine about being tired, tweet one of your embarrassing drafts, or admit a slightly shameful TV or movie opinion, there's truly no better time to do it.
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"In a video advertisement released by Meat and Livestock Australia recently, Lord Ganesha along with other religious figures is found to be 'toasting lamb', which the Indian community consider to be offensive and hurting their religious sentiments," the High Commission of India said in a press announcement.
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"I honestly thought at best I could maybe, through the process of meeting with them, just explain some of the things that would be offensive to me, and maybe guide it in some way just by getting my voice in someone's ear," Cretton said with a chuckle.
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Throughout, the series—like its predecessor—gets a steady supply of wacky from the apartment's superintendent, Schneider (Todd Grinnell), who's been reimagined as a leftist trust-fund hipster who doesn't understand why it might be offensive to wear a Che Guevara shirt around a Cuban refugee like Lydia.
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Had this gone the other way, we would have had a government mandate that if one bureaucrat -- in this case, from the United States Patent and Trademark Office -- finds your speech to be offensive, the force of the entire federal government may use its weight to suppress your speech.
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In the last five years, as the government has worked to crack down on sexual assault on campus, it has broadened the definition of sexual harassment to "any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature" and eliminated a protection that such conduct had to be offensive to a reasonable person.
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But in a brief phone call in response to follow-up questions posed to the club, Wim Beelaert, coordinator of the K.A.A. Gent Foundation, explained the organization's point of view that while such logos may indeed be offensive in the United States, they are not so in Belgium.
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To the Editor: Has anyone considered that those engaged in tearing down images of certain icons of the past are following the barbaric examples of the Taliban and ISIS, whose practice it has been to destroy relics of the past that they have found to be offensive to their particular sensibilities?
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The letter from Dr. Blasey's lawyers strongly suggested that it would be offensive to assert that she would not remember who pinned her down to a bed, groped her, tried to take her clothing off and covered her mouth to keep her from screaming at that party in the 1980s.
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Spotify, the music industry's leading streaming service, said on Thursday that it would stop promoting or recommending music by artists whose content or conduct it deemed to be offensive, hoping to quell a furor over the singer R. Kelly but immediately starting another debate over who qualified for the ban.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Editors Note: Attention to language that may be offensive to some readers in paragraph 3 The National Mall in Washington could become a sea of bright pink the day after Donald Trump is inaugurated as U.S. president if the vision of a pair of Los Angeles women is realized.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Editors Note: Attention to language that may be offensive to some readers in paragraph 3 The National Mall in Washington could become a sea of bright pink the day after Donald Trump is inaugurated as U.S. president if the vision of a pair of Los Angeles women is realized.
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"The purpose of this policy is not to prohibit all traditions regarding rookies or players," the new policy document said, "but rather to prohibit conduct that may cause players physical anguish or harm, may be offensive to some players, club staff or fans, or are distracting to the operation of the club or M.L.B."
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In a letter to students, faculty and staff members last week, the university's interim chancellor, Larry Sparks, wrote that while the university administration condemns racism, bigotry and hatred, the public spaces on campus are open for people to express their views, even if they are found to be offensive and contrary to the university's pursuits.
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"If we take the art down, the next day we'll have politicians demanding we take other things down and we'll end up only with colorful pictures of flowers in the museum," he told the AP. He did agree to tape a sign to the door, advising the museum's guests that some of the pieces on display might be offensive.
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"I'm here to propose that while more and more schools are teaching young people how not to be offensive, they also need to be teaching a new generation how not to be offended," Manji — an educator who recently released her third book, Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times — says in a video for Time.
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At this point, though, there are as many "How Not to be Offensive" guides to festival dressing as there are practical outfit suggestions, which paints a grim picture of what people consider appropriate — and makes it all the harder to take when this type of thing happens; the line between appreciation and appropriation is very fine.
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By also looking at reviews of a show, or looking up a museum to find out about different art that may be offensive, artists can keep expressing without breaking the story trying to be told and people can decide weather or not they will be triggered and should see a piece of art or a performance.
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To the Editor: No one is forcing evangelicals to use birth control, to choose to terminate a pregnancy, to marry someone of the same sex, to read books some consider to be offensive, to watch movies they consider objectionable, to befriend people of other faiths, or to engage in any acts that they find incompatible with their religious beliefs.
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" However, given the deputy chief's reluctance to explain the meaning of the acronym to the woman he emailed — he told her he could not repeat it and instructed her to google it — the inspector general determined it was reasonable to conclude that the deputy chief "was well aware such a term could be offensive and denigrating particularly when used in a Government communication.
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The brothers of the Tau chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity at Syracuse University would like you to know that the video of their initiation oath — in which one pledge says he "solemnly swears to always have hatred in my heart for n------, s----, and most importantly the fucking k----" — was just satire and not at all meant to be offensive to literally every decent human being.
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As part of the latest five-year collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the players' union, a new anti-hazing and anti-bullying policy was created that will end the practice of "requiring, coercing or encouraging players from dressing up as women or wearing costumes that may be offensive to individuals based on their race, sex, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identify or other characteristic," according to The Associated Press.
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Rep. Ilhan OmarIlhan OmarWorld Jewish Congress condemns Tlaib for suggesting boycott of Bill Maher's show A lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Tlaib suggests boycotting Maher show after he calls anti-Israel boycott movement 'bulls--- purity test' MORE (D-Minn.) expressed regret for saying in a 2012 tweet that "Israel has hypnotized the world" while doing "evil," saying she had not realized her words would be offensive to Jewish people.
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Zuckerberg also suggested to Wired that now that companies are better able to identify offensive content using AI, perhaps that leads to a level of regulated responsibility to pre-vet content on platform: Now that companies increasingly over the next five to 10 years, as AI tools get better and better, will be able to proactively determine what might be offensive content or violate some rules, what therefore is the responsibility and legal responsibility of companies to do that?
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