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> Even more interesting is your attempt to shut down the conversation because it offends you. That brings up an interesting issue for me. It's a somewhat popul
by hackuser 12y ago
> Even more interesting is your attempt to shut down the conversation because it offends you.
That brings up an interesting issue for me. It's a somewhat popular trope, that there is an equivalence between Amy offending people and Bob asking her to stop. It's really a rhetorical tactic -- an attempt to disrupt Bob by forcing him to philsophically justify what is obviously and intuitively true to everyone.
There may be a question of whether something is offensive or otherwise does harm to others, of course. But absolutely if someone finds something offensive, they should stand up and say so -- and not be shut down by the new political correctness (i.e., the frequent knee-jerk reaction to people who point out issues of race, gender, etc.).