Accepting this principle would have "devastating consequences": namely, that "government could forbid the graphic or visceral or emotionally charged expression of any opinion that might reasonably offend a disadvantaged group.
Section 18C makes it unlawful for a person to commit an act that is reasonably likely to "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate" someone on the basis of their race or ethnicity.
Section 18C prohibits speech – made in public – that is reasonably likely to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate someone, made on the grounds of someone's race, colour, national or ethnic origin.
Section 18C of the act makes it unlawful for a person to do an act that is reasonably likely to "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people" because of their "race, colour or national or ethnic origin".
He may also regard with satisfaction the affront he has caused to France's banking elite, whose sensibilities he offended with tactical bursts of Flemish brusqueness.What remains at the end of this is a reasonably healthy bank.
I got incredibly offended.
He seemed almost offended.
