While I sympathize with your viewpoint, perhaps I can shed some clarity on the other side. The concern is not feelings getting hurt, but rather physical security as a person of minority status.<p>This is something that a white heterosexual middle-class male (such as myself) can probably never fully appreciate, but I try to sympathize.<p>Imagine what it is like to be black in a country where just a few generations back you carried at all times in mixed-race race situations the possibility of being assaulted without recourse or lynched, or in present times accused and convicted of a crime you didn&#x27;t commit or shot on sight for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.<p>Imagine what it is like to be Jewish and have 85% of your relatives systematically wiped out in living memory.<p>Imagine what it is like to be a woman on a college campus where statistically 1 in 3 suffer sexual assault over the course of a 4 year education, almost always with the assailant getting off without charges.<p>Most times such people take offense it is not about feeling uncomfortable, but rather feeling <i>unsafe</i>. It is about fear that what starts with words will inevitably turn to, or enable, or justify actions.