Offending people and 'not meaning to offend people' are two different things. It doesn't really matter if you didn't 'intend' to offend if you actually DO offend. Saying you didn't 'mean' to offend is just another nonpology. Acknowledge the offense, understand WHY it's offensive, and then do something about it.

You apologize for the accidental offense.

Those offended, however, also have to admit that they took what wasn't offered, that there was no reason to be offended. That is, if we claim to be one society. Otherwise we have to segregate just to make life reasonable for all.

Otherwise you're saying that your every action is at the mercy of everybody else's feelings. You must be empathetic, considerate, understanding. That's your obligation. They, however, have no obligations to you: they just have the right to be offended, with no mutual obligations, no need for understanding or consideration.

And that's not just offensive. That's repulsive and corrodes social trust with its sheer arrogance. It's the KKK--"you have to treat us with respect, we don't have to treat you with anything but condescension." It's the New Black Panthers. It divides people into two groups--those who must be perpetually on their guard, and those who are entitled to feel they are only victims. It encourages feelings of offense and victimization because it gives them the power they think they're due.

I think the difference is whether or not you actually have any real respect for the people you've offended.

I'm probably not going to worry too hard about offending the KKK, because I don't respect them at all. But if I really do respect someone, then it is incumbent on me to figure out why what I say or do is offensive to them, to work to understand their viewpoint.

Am I perfect? No. So sometimes I'm not going to put in the work, sometimes I'm going to make incorrect assumptions about them that stop me from bothering to try and understand where they're coming from. But the more respect I have for them, in general, the more work I'm going to put into trying to see where they're coming from.

You will be offended. I guess you would like to see satire banned also.

Expecting humor without offense is like expecting sports without competition. Let the box office decide.

Nuff said.

Is making a movie that exploits racial and ethnic or sexist stereotypes and has juvenile potty humor, his career must be in bad shape for him to sink to this level (sarcasm)

I never cared for him on SNL, but if what he says is true, the claims may be without merit. I say that because the way producers make movies with scenes out of order, what may seem racist at first can be put into context in the final edit. Many actors have no idea what their final product is until they see the complete movie.

If the claims turn out to be true, he's on his own, but I think it's fair to give him the benefit of the doubt until then. If the movie has blatant racial stereotypes, he won't get away with it.

offensive? For some reason I always thought it the least offensive of any show I had ever seen. I thought "The Lone Ranger" offensive by the way the American Indians were betrayed. Just wondering.

If it's a Sandler flick, I'll be skipping it.

Why does everyone(?) get their panties in a wad over everything that is said by anyone? Who cares what Adam Sandler or Donald Trump or anyone says. Only fools bother to comment on what other fools say (present company excepted) is beyond me.

if you don't care, that's fine. But nobody cares that you don't care, yet you felt the need to inform us of this.

His attempts at drama are at least passable but his "comedies" are a blight on mankind.

Seems to get worse by the day

Perhaps it was his being a total ass & not caring about anyone but himself & ignoring what they were telling him??

& so now he is a victim-----

the PBS documentarian who asked her for her assessment of Adam Sandler (along with several other names of those who are well-known comics), which I recall at the time was almost the epitome of 'damning with faint praise', i.e., she was really giving and kind about others in her industry about whom she probably could have just said 'boring' or 'bad'.

Interestingly because his name came up already here, Rivers referred to Mel Brooks as a genius, which was simply a fact, IMO.

As a disclaimer, I know nothing about Adam Sandler except I've seen him in a couple films (whose titles I can't recall ATM), and don't recall feeling much about him one way or another.

So even if I were a huge fan, he's a big boy and can handle public criticism without my help.

cuz he sure did a hell of a job doing that just by being a natural ass.