[From article]
New York City is proposing a $250,000 fine for using the wrong pronoun in reference to a transgendered person. Really?! How would you know which pronoun to use? Why would a he that used to be a she be upset if one slipped up and used the feminine pronoun? Accidents happen, especially where confusion abounds. Are we now to ask about genitalia before we address a person with a Ms. or a Mr.?
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Where, on what planet, in what list of thou-shalt-nots, among what tribe of people is being totally inoffensive the most important moral value? And who has the authority in a free society to determine for the rest of us what is or is not an assault on general sensibilities?
[Answer is Harvard University administrators, and instructors at the prestigious Kennedy School of Government. That's who.]
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True morality has nothing to do with who’s offended. It has to do with limiting the chaos in society.
Being offensive is a breech of etiquette, not of morality. Being offensive is belching loudly, swearing like a stevedore, farting in church. It’s a failure of proper manners and decorum; it has nothing to do with political opinions, religious faith, or human morals.
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“the whiney class.” These are people who claim a special dispensation and demand that they never be offended, slighted, or snubbed in even the slightest way. Some blacks claim the right to never be called on anything, and demanding such deference is a big part of the Muslim stealth jihad; [. . .] Atheists appear to be of the opinion that no one should ever say anything about God; they evidently find His mention disturbing and references to His Son ever more disorienting. Feminists appear to be upset by anything men do.
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America has grown half a population with no backbone, no resilience, no interest in truth and the discomfort that often accompanies its discovery.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/to_be_or_not_to_be_offended_.html
January 6, 2016
To Be, or Not to Be Offended
By Deana Chadwell
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