Uhh... you haven't seen how literally every world leader is reading his tweets and reacting to them? Trump's diplomatic teams are putting out the political fires every time he tweets something bad. And you can't really blame the media since it's not like they're writing tweets he isn't making. Nor is it difficult for any world leader to read what he tweets.
Right. Well, we've had this conversation more times than I care to recall. I doubt either of us will have anything new to say about it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Yeah but this isn't fear of causing offense, it's intentionally causing offense by not being Politically Correct, which is a right's utopia yeah?
And, as I already said, I'm of the opinion that they should have the right to do it. Just, y'know, don't be surprised if after years of pushing for political censorship it eventually becomes a reality. We've been warning you this would happen.
Ok... I have no idea what this actually means. What have they gotten that they've been asking for all these years?
A cultural paradigm shift under which saying and doing offensive things is a big boo-boo. As far as I'm concerned, you should be allowed to kneel before, or on the flag, during the national anthem, to protest whatever the hell you wish. Then again, as far as I'm concerned you should also be allowed to take a dump on the flag, then set it on fire, then realise that flags aren't very flammable, and then flush it down your toilet.
Apparently Democrats have been clamouring to repress freedom of expression over the fear of causing offence. Just clamouring in general for that general idea. That was my favourite Obama speech.
Yes, unfortunately such shifts are not realistically restrictable to just a small set of cases. You either do it across the board or you don't do it at all. I'm going to carry on siding with the latter, but I will have no sympathy to supporters of the former who are now affected by their own ideas.