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I'm just saying that there is an unsolved conflict of interests and values. And I don't see a good way to solve it any time soon. Everything will offend someone
by throwaway1067 9y ago
I'm just saying that there is an unsolved conflict of interests and values. And I don't see a good way to solve it any time soon. Everything will offend someone somewhere, just blindly saying "don't do anything offending" doesn't help anyone. Instead we should take a stance and hold it, even if it's offending someone.
It just happens to be that Islam interests are contradicting to western values: if we take it to extreme we need to ban pork everywhere. This is one of unsolved examples: if pork is offending, do we serve pork? Or we stop serving pork just because part of the group finding it offending? I don't see a clear answer :(
- sidlls 9y agoThe context of discussion is harassment, not simply "being offended."
- friedButter 9y agoThe article considers being "offended" equivalent to harassment >Made remarks that some might consider sexist or offensive?
- sidlls 9y agoI suppose there is some room for interpretation left by the article, but when I read "sexist or offensive" I don't think "sexist or (anything unrelated to sex that is) offensive". I think "sexist or (sexually, in the sense of harassment, sexism, etc.) offensive". There's no good reason, in my view, to take the broader sense of "offended" as the meaning behind "offensive" here.