Allowing everyone to set the offense-o-meter for society at large doesn't seem very useful, to me. It seems like a race to the lowest common denominator.
To be open -- I'm offended plenty by much that I see. But I don't think that my offense is so special that others should take note of it, outside of me piping up. You want to use racial slurs? Go on ahead, identify yourself as a racist to me. I want to hang a dreamcatcher on my wall? If that hurts you, I'm sorry, but unlike the racial slurs that offend me, I'm not sticking it in your face -- I'm sticking it on my wall.
Not all offense is equal, and not all offense demands a social response. Not all appropriation is insulting, and not all ignorance is intentional.
To be open -- I'm offended plenty by much that I see. But I don't think that my offense is so special that others should take note of it, outside of me piping up. You want to use racial slurs? Go on ahead, identify yourself as a racist to me. I want to hang a dreamcatcher on my wall? If that hurts you, I'm sorry, but unlike the racial slurs that offend me, I'm not sticking it in your face -- I'm sticking it on my wall.
Not all offense is equal, and not all offense demands a social response. Not all appropriation is insulting, and not all ignorance is intentional.
