{"id":8780,"date":"2013-05-17T13:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/17\/your-federal-right-not-to-be-offended\/"},"modified":"2013-05-17T13:15:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:15:38","slug":"your-federal-right-not-to-be-offended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/17\/your-federal-right-not-to-be-offended\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Federal Right Not to be Offended"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Related: Of Black Holes and Political Correctness: If You Take Offense, Is that My Fault?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

We were talking of Hawking.  I said 'black hole.'  You heard 'black ho' and took offense . . . . Is that my problem?<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you really want to maintain that something is offensive just in virtue of someone's taking it to be offensive?  Do you really think that there is no call for a distinction between the objectively offensive and the merely subjectively offensive?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are that preternaturally deficient in intellect, then I am offended<\/em>, deeply and personally offended.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here Related: Of Black Holes and Political Correctness: If You Take Offense, Is that My Fault? We were talking of Hawking.  I said 'black hole.'  You heard 'black ho' and took offense . . . . Is that my problem? Do you really want to maintain that something is offensive just in virtue of someone's … Continue reading “Your Federal Right Not to be Offended”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}