However, a new royal yacht was considered offensive in the era of cuts, Michael Gove and David Willetts, the grinning ministerial cheerleaders, were slapped down and, anyway, was it really necessary?
Now, six years later, it seems more appropriate to think about the results of 1994 as something entirely different: the final rear-guard offensive of an era coming to an end.
In other films of the era, offensive racial terms and characterisations are depressingly familiar, but Fairbanks scoured his scripts (notably, those otherwise witty intertitles penned by Anita Loos) for all such terms before production began.
In this era of offensive inflation, people talk about bigger and stronger players, smaller parks, inferior pitchers and juiced balls.
That eye opener magnified what has become obvious on recent N.F.L. draft days: this is a golden era for offensive tackles.
"I had to go up against the greatest offensive player of that era, WILT CHAMBERLAIN, and do it on one leg.
Five of the six players just below Bautista on the list of biggest career-best home run improvements did it during the late 1990s or early 2000s, the so-called steroid era when offensive production soared.
And when it was over, despite a tepid beginning to the Tony Sparano era as offensive coordinator, Tebow had left a clear impression — that he will emerge as an asset for the Jets this season, be it as a punt protector or an elusive running threat or something else entirely.
While that was a relatively isolated incident, we are now entering a new era where offensive cyberattacks become routine.
"It is not for them to appropriate a derogatory offensive term that was used to belittle a whole section of society in a terrible era".
