Flinty wrote:@ Commissar and Slipspace:
Making offensive statements out of ignorance, and then blinking and moving on implies an unwillingness to learn and to improve one's behaviour in future. An individual may only make a couple of such mistakes, but the recipient may be bombarded with that kind of thing endlessly. This can have a damaging effect on the recipient, and where that individual is part of a relatively small minority this damage might be going on all their life.
People "getting offended on others' behalf" is one route by which the experience of some can be shared with others.
I agree that it can go too far sometimes, but I don't think the process itself should be ridiculed.
To me, not making assumptions about whether something might offend the recipient indicates a certain level of politeness. I would prefer to make the mistake of being too concerned over the impact of my actions, rather than not concerned enough.
Making an assumption that its a stupid rule made up by white middle class males also denigrates the efforts made by organisations to bring diversity and inclusion into the mainstream by explicitly consulting with minorities that contribute to their efforts, or are affected by their work.
I disagree wholeheartedly with the fact that the process should be accepted for two reasons.
1. It goes contrary to a sovereign individual as an aim to become a functioning individual at all, individuals, even minorities can perfectly make that judgement call themselves as can the majority decide to merit that on an individual basis.
More pressing, that way of thinking also implies that there is a right to not be offended at all which is iow an absolute totalitarian way of thinking and in essence describeable as an internalised chilling effect for things, situations and or problems with culture that would need addressing but can't be due to it.
2. The vast extent is nothing more than a of a severe case of holier than thou attitude by certain people to hold over someone that isn't aligned with said way of thinking.
As for the last part:
the efforts made by organisations to bring diversity and inclusion into the mainstream by explicitly consulting with minorities that contribute to their efforts, or are affected by their work.
That would be accurate if we would not see the current situation with SBI and more pressingly with BGG.
