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Originally Posted by glatt
Do you think that it's possible an anti-immigrant person saw that it painted them in a bad light, so they called in the complaint so it would be taken down?
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I agree glatt. I saw the image and before I read your comment, I thought, "what he's saying is 'I got mine, piss off.'" What I see here is "I'm offended that the hypocrisy of my position is being displayed in such an unflattering way! Take that down!". But the problem is, to paraphrase Undertoad,
that doesn't fit in the checkbox.
The mistaken belief/bad policy that people have a legally enforceable right to be be free from being offended is the source of the problem here. I don't like being offended (though some clearly do), I don't like being offensive (though some clearly do), but since it's such a subjective condition, it's impractical if not impossible avoid. I like our First Amendment freedom, and I think it's a good model.