My Uber-Leftist employee said something to me that just stunned me. We were discussing how his favorite comedian got beat up on stage because one of his jokes offended somebody. He said, “You know, it’s comedy. It’s going to offend somebody. That’s just tough. I go to a show and he says something offensive...I don’t care.”
People who are looking for offense will find offense. They will find it where none was intended because being offended is power. Also, it gives people the opportunity to be drama queens when they expect to be applauded for it.
In my final two years in the working world I no longer talked to people I didn’t know well. None of us talked freely in front of people we didn’t know because if they took offense, or thought that somebody else might take offense, (yes, that was the published standard we were held to) we could have been fired. It’s a very scary world out there now.
“My Uber-Leftist employee said something to me that just stunned me. We were discussing how his favorite comedian got beat up on stage because one of his jokes offended somebody. He said, “You know, it’s comedy. It’s going to offend somebody. That’s just tough. I go to a show and he says something offensive...I don’t care.”
You mean like Chris Rock?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4