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That's what we get for allowing schools to dumb down the citizenry. A "columnist" in our local newspaper once wrote, and I quote "Just because you have the right to free speech doesn't mean you have the right to offend me."

Presumably she is a college graduate, and passed some type of interview or selection process to be hired...

"Just because you have the right to free speech doesn't mean you have the right to offend me."

I have looked and looked and free speech is quaranteed in the constitution but the right not to be offended isn't there.

I'm sure she was a product of our liberal college system..

In the same vein- while arguing with someone that claiming offense usually meant they couldn't refute your stance any other way, I was told : " You have a point, but it doesn't mean anything."
I'm still banging my head over that mindlessness.
" Offense"- the reflexive reaction of an overloaded brain stem most often found at the base of an atrophied brain.

That's what we get for allowing schools to dumb down the citizenry.

It's a language thing and is so embedded in our controlling social system that we can't think any other way. Being offended simply cements the regulatory system in place. It's not just the schools, but politicians, advertisers, and employers who have bought into the use of language as control. Attempts to break out of the controlling language are also absorbed into the system, so there is no 'outside' to this universe. It is self-contained, including protests, self-perpetuating, consuming everything like a black hole, and no one has the moxie to break out for long. Could be worse: Arabs let this happen to their language 1000 years ago and they are so cut off it's like their universe bubble cannot be reached from outside and they cannot communicate to the outside; they live in a totally different universe with different physical laws and always will.