Context my friend. Why are you offended when someone is clearly not using it in the context you seem to be offended by?. It's intention behind the communication that you should react to. If there is no intention then it's pointless crying over it.
Humans are not emotionless robots who can interpret the intention of a sentence without being influenced by the way in which it is constructed. If you use a word with negative connotations, people will react more negatively to your sentence than if you don't, regardless of your intent. It might be "pointless" but it is a simple reality of human behaviour, and it is even more pointless to complain about people being human.
