{"id":24077,"date":"2014-08-27T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24077"},"modified":"2024-02-17T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T22:01:20","slug":"qotd-more-offensensitivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/qotd-more-offensensitivity\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: More offensensitivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8216;It&#8217;s now very common to hear people say, &#8220;I&#8217;m rather offended by that&#8221;, as if that gives them certain rights. It&#8217;s no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. &#8220;I&#8217;m offended by that.&#8221; Well, so fucking what?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Fry, quoted by David Smith in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2005\/jun\/05\/religion.hayfestival2005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;I saw hate in a graveyard &#8211; Stephen Fry&#8221;, <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>, 2005-06-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s now very common to hear people say, &#8220;I&#8217;m rather offended by that&#8221;, as if that gives them certain rights. It&#8217;s no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. &#8220;I&#8217;m offended by that.&#8221; Well, so fucking what?&#8217; Stephen Fry, quoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[186,238,1537],"class_list":["post-24077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-offensensitivity","tag-stephenfry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6gl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87453,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24077\/revisions\/87453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}