"Similarly, maybe the restaurant owner is fine selling samosas to white dudes, but maybe every other person in there rolls his eyes the minute you walk in."
You know, the direction this example is going is making me want to take the opposing stance from the poll option, and say that I think it's *not* okay for people to be offended by people from outside their culture partaking of their *public* gathering.[1] If you want to have an event that excludes everyone who's not like you (even potentially shallow and annoying people) you can do it in private.
[1] This is way stronger than my actual position, since people can think whatever they want, though again I may think slightly less of someone who I see coming off as overly critical/unaccepting. And it's also affected by the particular wording of your example, where people rolled their eyes when someone *walked in*. If the outsider proceeded to act like a boorish asshole, then offense is plenty justified.
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Date: 2008-09-27 06:45 pm (UTC)You know, the direction this example is going is making me want to take the opposing stance from the poll option, and say that I think it's *not* okay for people to be offended by people from outside their culture partaking of their *public* gathering.[1] If you want to have an event that excludes everyone who's not like you (even potentially shallow and annoying people) you can do it in private.
[1] This is way stronger than my actual position, since people can think whatever they want, though again I may think slightly less of someone who I see coming off as overly critical/unaccepting. And it's also affected by the particular wording of your example, where people rolled their eyes when someone *walked in*. If the outsider proceeded to act like a boorish asshole, then offense is plenty justified.