Feeling offended is no reason to stifle debate

By Zoë Wundenberg
Updated January 23 2018 - 12:36pm, first published 11:30am
OPINION: Feeling offended is no reason to end the debate
OPINION: Feeling offended is no reason to end the debate

It seems to me that people have forgotten the value in feeling offended. Instead of using this sense of offence to build passion and fire up debate on contentious issues, we are using it as an excuse to silence the other side through assigning shame to a person who has the gall to disagree with us. Perhaps this growing sense of communal offence creates a sense of community out of collective righteous indignation, perhaps it gives people a sense of purpose, perhaps it’s attention seeking.

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