@interpol_p: As a thought experiment, what if the joke had been, "Where does the king keep his armies? Up his sleevies!" ie. entirely innocuous and commonly tol

@interpol_p: As a thought experiment, what if the joke had been, "Where does the king keep his armies? Up his sleevies!" ie. entirely innocuous and commonly told in third grade classrooms. If all parties had behaved identically and this same controversy had blown up as a result of that joke, would you still be taking the same position that you do in your comment here? I'm asking if you acknowledge the existence of some norm in our society for the reasonableness of being offended. Is there a point beyond which we as a society say, "No reasonable person would ever be offended by that, so we're sorry you're experiencing negative emotions and rising hair on your neck, and we're sorry you feel like murder is imminent, but this is not actually a problem and there is a negligible probability of you being killed based on a joke about the king's sleeves." Note that a consequence of denying such a norm is that we must frequently reorganize our society to please myriad extremists of many stripes, many of whom have mutually exclusive demands. Conversely, if you admit the existence of such a norm, is this controversy just a discussion about how to construct an algorithm for calibrating it? I'm genuinely asking these things, not being snarky.