being offended

taking offense

is often insufferable. Taking offense is often as rude as giving it.

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense. (Ken S. Keyes Jr.)

is weakness --- If one has salt thrown at him, he will receive no harm, unless he is raw.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

is somehow often conflated with being right. Being offended doesn’t make you right.