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<p>Respect is earned, and no one is entitled to it, which means even people we love can lose our respect at the drop of a hat.</p><p>While everyone is bound to make mistakes and say a few cringe things, there&#39;s a marked difference between an ignorant passing statement and a deal-breaker. When someone spouts bigoted ideals, blatant misinformation, or shows a complete disconnection from reality, it can shift our view of them even if we don&#39;t cut them off. And sadly, it can happen with the people we least expect.</p><h2>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nu1dt6/whats_the_dumbest_thing_someone_has_ever_said_to/" target="_blank">a popular Reddit thread</a>, people shared the dumbest thing someone ever said that made them immediately lose respect.</h2><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Smij0/">Smij0</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Something along the lines of &quot;If you&#39;re a Cancer, don&#39;t raise your voice against me. I&#39;m a Leo and I can make you cry in one sentence.&quot;</p> <p>I mean believe what you want but if you believe in something so much you need to more or less insult people.. thats a bit too much for me.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/HeliumAlloy/">HeliumAlloy</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Among many other things, he told me about a &quot;life hack&quot; (his words) where you go into the store, grab a sandwich from the deli, and leave without paying for it... because then it doesn&#39;t cost any money.</p> <p>It&#39;s not petty theft. It&#39;s a <em>life hack</em>.</p> </blockquote><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Huge_Scale9362/">Huge_Scale9362</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I worked at a paint store mixing paint from 14-19, a lady asked for rainbow paint. Like, with a single brush stroke it makes a rainbow.</p> </blockquote><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/freakypigeon/">freakypigeon</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A girl I knew said that she keyed another car, because the driver parked too close to her car in the car park.</p> <p>I hate people who purposely vandalize other people&rsquo;s property. I blocked and deleted her contact details the same day.</p> </blockquote><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Bogdan-Forrester/">Bogdan-Forrester</a>:</h2><p> </p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>&quot;Not my fault I want to live my life&quot;. My old roommate&#39;s wife as she justified cheating on her husband who has to stay at home with the kids.</p> </blockquote><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ROBOTMAJORENEMY/">ROBOTMAJORENEMY</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a girlfriend who thought Criss Angel could actually do magic. Like bend the laws of physics. Criss Angel released a video showing how he does one of his levitations. When I showed her it she said &quot;He just released that so the CIA wouldn&#39;t abduct him and experiment on him.&quot; She&#39;s no longer my girlfriend.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thestonez/">thestonez</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Is the blue part on a map the sky or the water?&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Diddler_OnTheRough/">Diddler_OnTheRough</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Someone in my office said that I should have my sinuses removed.</p> <p>Say what? I said. How the f*ck do you remove an open space.</p> </blockquote><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/derey094/">derey094</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;I will square up with anybody anytime&hellip; * at party event fight breaks out kid gets challenege and proceeds to walk away* when asked he response &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t wanna kill the vibe!&rdquo; Repeat five times.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mightypugman/">mightypugman</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Two things my former boss said to me that I will never forget</p> <p>- &ldquo;Bunnings doesn&rsquo;t affect our business&rdquo;</p> <p>&ldquo;The weather doesn&rsquo;t affect our business&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>These were meant to be sales pep talks but they&rsquo;re the exact moments where I thought this idiot is ignorant beyond stupidity, we are a small hardware wholesaler where sales are 100% dictated by weather and a giant corporation single-handedly killing off independent hardware stores. Coming from an &ldquo;intelligent, educated, businessman&rdquo; this was utterly stupid, moronic and embarrassing. Honestly, I didn&rsquo;t respect him much from the start, invested his entire life into that shitty company and neglected his family in the process, now that he&rsquo;s frail and old his family wants nothing to do with the business and he can&rsquo;t sell it.</p> </blockquote><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wehosh/">wehosh</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p><em>&quot;Mexicans aren&#39;t people&quot;</em> unironically...</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TheRitualMaster/">TheRitualMaster</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;Why can&rsquo;t MAPs be a part of the LGBTQ+ community&rdquo; Stopped talking to him after that lol</p> <p>(MAPS stands for Minor-Attracted Person)</p> </blockquote><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/came4thefreefood/">came4thefreefood</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;I only listened to the other presentations to see how much better I am than everyone else.&rdquo;</p> <p>&ldquo;I enjoy seeing people fail.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bitterherpes/">bitterherpes</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I met someone recently and he knows I&#39;m sober.</p> <p>He asked me to meet him at a bar and have some drinks. I told him I don&#39;t drink anymore.</p> <p>He told me just once is fine.</p> <p>No, dear, people who are sober can&#39;t get away with &quot;just once.&quot; Would he tell a recovering coke addict that just once is okay? Good god.</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/squirrel_and_pancake/">squirrel_and_pancake</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;The Tiananmen Square Massacre is CIA propaganda&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Forward_Elephant8428/">Forward_Elephant8428</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When my boss yelled at me for making a spelling error (in my third language). Said it was a disgrace and how can we have anything like that at the office. Lost respect. Quit 3 months later.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kazooologist/">kazooologist</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I had really sh**ty teeth as a kid. My best friend at the time once said to me, &quot;you remind me of the orcs from the Lord of the Rings!&quot; Then she turns to her dad and asks, &quot;Dad, doesn&#39;t kazoologist look like an orc?&quot; I haven&#39;t spoken to her in almost four years now. I&#39;m much better off without her.</p> </blockquote><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sea-Rope-8812/">Sea-Rope-8812</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>&quot;Women in nature settings are to be conquered.&quot; Idk what else to say.</p> </blockquote><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/watchforbicycles/">watchforbicycles</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>&quot;I&#39;m okay with Muslim women and children coming into our country. Just not the men because they are more likely to be terrorist.&quot;- This from a man that constantly whines about growing up without a father. Guess it&#39;s okay to break up Muslim families though? Bonus points- his mom has since married a Muslim.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/The-Precious-One/">The-Precious-One</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>They had the opinion that it&rsquo;s ok to hurt a mostly innocent group in order to harm a handful of bad people.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share times they lost respect for someone after a dumb statement.

Respect is earned, and no one is entitled to it, which means even people we love can lose our respect at the drop of a hat.While everyone is bound to make mistakes and say a few cringe things, there&#39;s a marked difference between an ignorant passing statement and a deal-breaker. When someone spouts bigoted ideals, blatant misinformation, or shows a complete disconnection from reality, it can shift our view of them even if we don&#39;t cut them off. And sadly, it can happen with the people we least expect.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the dumbest thing someone ever said that made them immediately lose respect.1. From Smij0: Something along the lines of &quot;If you&#39;re a Cancer, don&#39;t raise your voice against me. I&#39;m a Leo and I can make you cry in one sentence.&quot; I mean believe what you want but if you believe in something so much you need to more or less insult people.. thats a bit too much for me. 2. From HeliumAlloy: Among many other things, he told me about a &quot;life hack&quot; (his words) where you go into the store, grab a sandwich from the deli, and leave without paying for it... because then it doesn&#39;t cost any money. It&#39;s not petty theft. It&#39;s a life hack. 3. From Huge_Scale9362:  I worked at a paint store mixing paint from 14-19, a lady asked for rainbow paint. Like, with a single brush stroke it makes a rainbow. 4. From freakypigeon: A girl I knew said that she keyed another car, because the driver parked too close to her car in the car park. I hate people who purposely vandalize other people&rsquo;s property. I blocked and deleted her contact details the same day. 5. From Bogdan-Forrester:  &quot;Not my fault I want to live my life&quot;. My old roommate&#39;s wife as she justified cheating on her husband who has to stay at home with the kids. 6. From ROBOTMAJORENEMY: I had a girlfriend who thought Criss Angel could actually do magic. Like bend the laws of physics. Criss Angel released a video showing how he does one of his levitations. When I showed her it she said &quot;He just released that so the CIA wouldn&#39;t abduct him and experiment on him.&quot; She&#39;s no longer my girlfriend. 7. From thestonez: &quot;Is the blue part on a map the sky or the water?&quot; 8. From Diddler_OnTheRough: Someone in my office said that I should have my sinuses removed. Say what? I said. How the f*ck do you remove an open space. 9. From derey094: &ldquo;I will square up with anybody anytime&hellip; * at party event fight breaks out kid gets challenege and proceeds to walk away* when asked he response &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t wanna kill the vibe!&rdquo; Repeat five times. 10. From mightypugman: Two things my former boss said to me that I will never forget - &ldquo;Bunnings doesn&rsquo;t affect our business&rdquo; &ldquo;The weather doesn&rsquo;t affect our business&rdquo;  These were meant to be sales pep talks but they&rsquo;re the exact moments where I thought this idiot is ignorant beyond stupidity, we are a small hardware wholesaler where sales are 100% dictated by weather and a giant corporation single-handedly killing off independent hardware stores. Coming from an &ldquo;intelligent, educated, businessman&rdquo; this was utterly stupid, moronic and embarrassing. Honestly, I didn&rsquo;t respect him much from the start, invested his entire life into that shitty company and neglected his family in the process, now that he&rsquo;s frail and old his family wants nothing to do with the business and he can&rsquo;t sell it. 11. From wehosh: &quot;Mexicans aren&#39;t people&quot; unironically... 12. From TheRitualMaster: &ldquo;Why can&rsquo;t MAPs be a part of the LGBTQ+ community&rdquo; Stopped talking to him after that lol (MAPS stands for Minor-Attracted Person) 13. From came4thefreefood: &ldquo;I only listened to the other presentations to see how much better I am than everyone else.&rdquo; &ldquo;I enjoy seeing people fail.&rdquo; 14. From bitterherpes: I met someone recently and he knows I&#39;m sober. He asked me to meet him at a bar and have some drinks. I told him I don&#39;t drink anymore. He told me just once is fine. No, dear, people who are sober can&#39;t get away with &quot;just once.&quot; Would he tell a recovering coke addict that just once is okay? Good god. 15. From squirrel_and_pancake: &quot;The Tiananmen Square Massacre is CIA propaganda&quot; 16. From Forward_Elephant8428: When my boss yelled at me for making a spelling error (in my third language). Said it was a disgrace and how can we have anything like that at the office. Lost respect. Quit 3 months later. 17. From kazooologist: I had really sh**ty teeth as a kid. My best friend at the time once said to me, &quot;you remind me of the orcs from the Lord of the Rings!&quot; Then she turns to her dad and asks, &quot;Dad, doesn&#39;t kazoologist look like an orc?&quot; I haven&#39;t spoken to her in almost four years now. I&#39;m much better off without her. 18. From Sea-Rope-8812:  &quot;Women in nature settings are to be conquered.&quot; Idk what else to say. 19. From watchforbicycles:  &quot;I&#39;m okay with Muslim women and children coming into our country. Just not the men because they are more likely to be terrorist.&quot;- This from a man that constantly whines about growing up without a father. Guess it&#39;s okay to break up Muslim families though? Bonus points- his mom has since married a Muslim. 20. From The-Precious-One:  They had the opinion that it&rsquo;s ok to hurt a mostly innocent group in order to harm a handful of bad people. 