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I like and agree with the author's message. I would appreciate if we as a society accepted the notion:

"...we have the ability to decide not to be offended."

My next question is, how do we address the blasphemous things people say in our everyday political discussion? How does society correctly stifle the pundits that shout the xenophobic soundbites?

What do we change so that speech that offends for the sole purpose of offending falls on deaf ears?

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"Simple", the thing to change is: we stop giving them (the pundits and the person saying it) attention; since that's what they're after.

Either that, or just get over the fact that people will say things you don't like, think is blasphemous (to whatever your God is), annoys you, etc.

Somewhere along the line people stopped teaching: sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

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