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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Why would that matter? It either is or is not offensive. You don't think it is and that's fine.
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How many people are offended matters, because a liberal society can’t possibly uphold social norms if the threshold for offence is 2 or 3 per cent of people. Imagine, for instance, if everything that made Mormons uncomfortable was scrubbed from pop culture.
We can’t continue ceding moral authority to a few hundred sanctimonious scolds on twitter. Not unless we want to see the legitimacy of whoever is doing the ceding - whether it’s the media, schools, or government - undermined in the eyes of the public.