Can we stop saying this as a universal truth?
You find it offensive. I and millions other people don't. You deal with it.
Can we stop saying this as a universal truth?
You find it offensive. I and millions other people don't. You deal with it.
Should everyone live to the strictest thinkable standards because somewhere out there is a semi-large group of people who find your behavior offensive?
Such semi-large groups might be religions for example that take various kinds of behaviors you take for granted as offensive.
You want to draw the line at marginalizing a group of people or trivializing something serious like racism. But you want to make sure you are doing it in a way that isn't inhibiting legitimate thoughts, studies, projects, etc. from making it into the public sphere.
Every time you censor speech you stifle legitimate dialog because people will be uncertain whether their thoughts are legitimate or just offensive.
Nobody cares that you are offended. Get over it.