Seeing the Dawn French madness and the sports insanity makes me want to start a crusade - in the name of humour - OffendSomebodyToday!!!

Very easy to offend these days.

Just voice an opinion that differs from the one they think they have come up with themselves...

I am offended by all the worthy claptrap, but nobody seems to mind that.

Honey wrote:
I am offended by all the worthy claptrap, but nobody seems to mind that.

I think a lot of people mind Honey but are too fearful of repercussions if they speak out. It is not enough to be against racism; if you don't agree on its increasingly wide and absurd definitions, you are categorised as racist yourself.

And of course the same on a growing number of subjects. You get "cancelled". It is a culturally totalitarian and fascist approach that is killing free speech. It is the biggest cultural problem we face, and hard to see where it will all end.

How long until Othello is banned and Shakepeare cancelled because some of his characters were racist? Absurd? Hopefully. But it is where the logic of this pernicious and idiotic movement takes us.

Wyot wrote:
Very easy to offend these days.

Just voice an opinion that differs from the one they think they have come up with themselves...

Just admitting you voted for Brexit to a remainer can cause a stir.

Just opposing to BLM at a football match can cause a fuss even though FA have it's own Kick It Out campaign.

I am very happy to be offended, as long as I am free to offend other people.
Only I'm not.

There are signs of resistance now though, and I do believe in time sense will prevail:

amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/09/ca...tter_impression=true

Establishment man Stephen Fry and other Cambridge alumni lending their voices to this modest but important sign of spring...

Wyot wrote:
There are signs of resistance now though, and I do believe in time sense will prevail:

amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/09/ca...tter_impression=true

Establishment man Stephen Fry and other Cambridge alumni lending their voices to this modest but important sign of spring...

Go woke go broke.