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by mvdtnz 268 days ago
Don't police other people's language.
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*until someone says something about something I identify with personally

Is always the subtext to statements like yours.

And in that case I would strongly consider sucking it up and deciding not to make my feelings so easily hurt. It’s crazy that something is only acceptable to say once every possible listener has signed off on it being sufficiently inoffensive. It is just as much a responsibility of the listener to not be a jerk as it is the speaker.
Wasn't that what OP was doing?