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Originally Posted by jj20x
And yet nobody is actually discussing Brexit, at all.
So an interesting interjection.
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The subject is not Brexit. Brexit is, i think, one result of people feeling annoyed at being told what to believe, and a concerted effort by the papers to blame the EU for everything (including us being told what to believe, what to find offensive etc). It's not generally the EU telling us this (in my experience).
But, that is off topic.
I think people (especially now) are too quick to get offended, and in my experience, both left and right wing people are too quick to get offended.
Do I wish for a return of the old days when we could happily walk down the street calling people various combinations of words beginning with N, P and F (all of which are now offensive) while wolf whistling all the women? No. Nor do I wish to be in a situation where we have potentially innocent people losing their career because someone said they said something someone was offended by.