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Originally Posted by transplant99
Somebody always has to be offended by something in this PC world we now reside in.
This is just as stupid as most of the nonsense people waste their time worrying about.
Everybody is an immigrant at some point in their family history...unless they were born out of the ground and laid claim right then and there.
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The irony in this is that people are getting all up in arms about people being all up in arms.
I mean seriously, how many people here were going around referring to aboriginals as immigrants before this came up? If you had never done so before I don't think it's too difficult to figure out why there were people who took exception with it. The Governer-General isn't an idiot and realized how it could be taken as offensive, so he apologized.
It almost seems possible that maybe some people are simply taking exception with aboriginals being offended period rather than what they are being offended by. I can't think of very many scenarios where people try to rationalize why someone shouldn't be offended by something that the offending party has already voluntarily apologized for.