Screaming "That's offensive!" is nothing but a ploy.  (Liberals) just don't happen to like what you're saying.  Liberals trade on this ploy, using it as a standard response whenever their sacred cows come under scrutiny.  A translation of what they really mean to say will illustrate why:

"I hate what you're saying, it makes me angry and you should shut your mouth! [expletives omitted]"

And the "Offensiveness Ploy" (OP) is ideal, as it shifts the onus from them to you.  A direct command to still your tongue would make them appear the villains, intolerant, immature, imperious clods, incapable of brooking dissent.  It would be offensive.  But the OP makes you seem the offensive one.   

 

But in a bastion of liberalism (universities), where accountability is as absent as sensibility, ...here's (the)  message (of students who shout down conservative speakers):

"I hate what you're saying, it makes me angry and you should shut your mouth!  And you're going to shut your mouth whether you like it or not.  We don't have to take it anymore [expletives omitted]."

Tyrants agree: the easiest way to win a debate is to prevent the other side from debating.

 

Thus, there is a lesson here we ignore at our own peril.  You can have freedom from being offended or you can have freedom of speech, but you cannot have both.

 

The great victory of the left is that it has made us apologize for being right.  A few may be truly offended, being in the grip of primitive pride.  But, mostly, we are in the grip of a primitive ploy.  We need more offensiveness, not less.  We must offend the liars, the degraded, the darkness, the destroyers of civilization.

So my answer to the offended is, you have every right to be offended.  Now, grow up.  If you can't sit at the table of reasoned debate, go back to your bread and circuses.  Let the adults figure out the problems of the world.

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