The name's defenders, including my brother, ask: Who gets to claim offense?
Under the "blueprint," if one individual subjectively claims offense, a perfectly innocuous speaker can be labeled a sexual harasser.
We are all free to decide how to live our lives, and make choices based on our values and no one has a right to claim offense over another's personal choices.
Well, first of all, I'd like to repeat what has been said elsewhere, which is that the film blogging community's general distaste for Mr. Ratner and his filmography has made him an easy target for a pile-on, a way to overtly claim offense to show that they are oh-so-sensitive and holier-than-thou when it comes to the rights and feelings of homosexuals.
Pinochet's son, Marco Antonio, dismissed the allegations as "lies" and claimed no offense was committed.
Strange that some student's claim offense at the violence, racism, and sexual content of some of the greatest works ever put on paper, but no sensitivities at all to the graphic nature of cable TV, movies, U-Tube, or sometimes hate mongering lyrics of rap music; Hints of non sequitur waft from the lecture hall rafters.
It cannot be claimed for one offense and prevent arrest for other offenses; and removal proceedings are but process for arrest,means of bringing a defendant to trial.
Her work with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, as Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and with Equality Now, a nongovernmental organization, often focusing on issues of prostitution and trafficking, further opened opportunities for women to claim sexual offenses as human rights violations.
I, too, take offense when people make these kinds of claims, but I take offense when someone I'm dating makes a claim that's not true".
India is a paradise for those who take offense because the first reaction of the state is to appease those who claim to have been offended.
