If you're offended by any word in any language, it’s probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child. They were too stupid. They should have been neutered. Because all it is is a sound you can make with your mouth. It’s not a weakness that you have naturally. When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet, you're nothing but a gooey, shrinking, wrinkled ball of weakness. That’s all you are: you're weak, you're nothing but weak, and your parents look at that, and they think: “Not weak enough. We can make this thing even weaker by training it to react poorly to different sounds that you can make with your mouth.”
-- Doug Stanhope
Even taking many of this quote's assumptions for granted, I'd question whether it's always a bad thing to be weak. Some weaknesses can be strategic - for example, building failure modes into your designs allows them to fail gracefully rather than causing a catastrophe. In this case, I think that being offended by certain words can sometimes have utility because that offense can be used productively in a few different ways.
Offense can motivate people to try harder in their struggles against injustice.
Offense can be useful for persuading other people of
Quotes are a unique enough medium of expression that I'm interested in viewing quotes that people have found collectable, emotionally impactful, useful, memorable, or otherwise noteworthy - perhaps others are similarly interested. To clarify, these need not be even remotely related to rationality. I'm hijacking the mandates traditionally used for the Rationality Quotes thread, with a few modifications:
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