Not to apologize for offensive words?

If you said it TO someone is not the same as someone overhearing something you said. If it wasn't directly about them, then I would tell them to pull up their granny panties and suck it up buttercup. No apology from me. If the comment was about them and they overheard it I would just apologize for them overhearing it but not for saying it. Once again, suck it up buttercup.

Fuck it. Everyone moves on.

I had all the blacks at my work mad at me for a few weeks because I used to argue politics with this one black dude whos been shot 12 times (swear to god) and hes all BLM and big against Trump. We would get in heated arguments and one day he tried to fight me at work over something stupid and he was like "you're just a punk ass white boy!" And I couldnt think of anything to say so i said "I may be a punk ass white boy. But atleast I'm not black!" And everyone started chimping out swingin from trees and shit. Ppl wouldnt talk to me. Like youre supposed to just let ppl be racist and not get racist back.

Someone being offended is only valid to me if it lines up with my own sensibilities. If I don’t find it offensive then it isn’t. My words and actions are not for humans, nor god, to judge.

*shakes fist at ceiling

you hear that you!

People need to wrap themselves in cotton wool these days.. They take offense to everything under the sun.

100%. I would never say a racial slur or anything like that. In this case though, it was something not commonly known. Apparently "I've been gypped" is offensive (it's an older phrase that means "I've been tricked") I had no idea it was highly offensive. I've literally never heard of that being offensive. But I guess it is. I wish I wouldn't be crucified for not knowing it, you know? No one can reasonably know every single thing that's offensive.

i understand your view but it would only take a second to apologize. even if you didn’t mean it, it still hurt their feelings. it’s just the polite thing to do.

Not only is it normal but it should be encouraged at every juncture. People who can't handle being offended shouldn't exist. Simple as. Make them toughen up by exposing them to what they fear.

No, stand strong. It's important and healthy to take people's feelings into consideration, but go too far with that and you'll be walked all over. Don't go out of your way to hurt people, but if it really as unreasonable as you've shown here, which I don't doubt, then I see no problem with you doing what you're doing.
Mind you, it's always worth "being the bigger man", so if more "drama" arises from this, and it starts to cause unnecessary problems, it may be worth just swallowing your pride, and making your intentions clear, reconciliating the relationship between you two.
But it sounds like this person's a weak, rude asshole, so to speak, so I think in the current situation you're in, just to forget about it, and hang out with people who are easier to have a conversation with.

Were you actually gypped, did this person swindle you out of money, or trick you into buying something you didn't want to buy? Is this person an ethnic Roma/Gypsy person?

If they actually stole from you, or otherwise tricked you out of your money I would side with you, and say that you don't owe them an apology, not unless they're willing to refund your money. Perhaps they should be less pushy, or manipulative with their sales tactics in the future? However if this person did not in fact swindle, or otherwise, "gyppe", you then I think just owe them an apology, especially if they are a person of Roma ethnicity.

I feel like there's more to this story than what you have so far shared. I also feel like it's not unheard of for people to act very offended if they've been accused of doing something immoral for the sake of their pride, and swindling, or tricking someone out of money is immoral.

I think whether, or not you owe this person an apology depends on numerous factors.

You should apologise anyway if it's unintentional. Like if you accidentally stepped on someone's foot you'd apologise, even though it was an accident. It's just polite.

I can understand why you wouldn't want to apologise now though that they've all ganged up on you, that's wrong too. Like if it was clearly accidental then there's no excuse to insult someone.

This happens to me all the fucking time, and yet someone else can say something just as, if not more offensive, to the same group of people, and they're cool with it. It's like that fucking slide whistle episode of Spongebob.
One example is when someone called me a cunt on facebook, in a group, so I responded with a picture of a food called "faggots" that I got from google images and said "you are what you eat" (because the discussion was about meat), then everyone ganged up on me and made a group to target and harass me for 2 years. It was just a dumb joke. And I'm always going to find that funny. In fact I find it even more funny because they got so butthurt over it.
But in the same group, someone made a post saying "why are there so many gay people here? Gross", and nobody called them out for it. They saw it as a joke. WHAT THE FUCK?! It's like the saying goes to quote Squidward: "why is it that whenever I'M having fun, it's wrong?"