This is a pointless statement. Nobody&#x27;s going to stop being offended just because you said so. It&#x27;s as effective as yelling into the wind.<p>Instead, one has to ask: why is this happening? At least from where I&#x27;m sitting, it&#x27;s clear that a lot of these recent flare-ups have been caused by previously disenfranchised groups finally getting their voices heard in the popular media. Sometimes they go too far, but there&#x27;s a lot of repressed anger in the air from years and decades of mistreatment. If your solution is to yell at them to shut the fuck up, it will backfire. Horribly.<p>Also, not all cases of someone insulting you for being different are equal. Some are in-the-moment, sure. But some carry the weight of decades of hatred behind them. Equating the two invalidates the severity of the latter and keeps marginalized groups marginalized.<p>I think reaching for the &quot;PC culture&quot; argument is the easy way out. It would do us all a lot of good to try to put ourselves in the adverserial party&#x27;s shoes, even if we might (vehemently) disagree with their actions.<p>The topic has to be approached with extreme sensitivity.