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Originally Posted by deepimpact2
As far as finding "you" offensive in this type of context in which Kevin put it, that attitude would probably carry over in a multitude of situations. For example, if someone said, "you people in the South supporting Palin are crazy." Someone who lives in the South and is extremely opposed to Palin would most definitely take offense to that, and that would be completely understandable.
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I think we need a little lesson in subject-predicate.
In your example "You people in the south supporting Palin" is the subject.
"are crazy" is the predicate. If the subject doesn't apply - in this case if you live in the South, but don't support Palin or if you support Palin, but don't live in the South - then the predicate doesn't apply. No offense necessary.