<p>Wow, weiner, that is some first post! A passionate statement in favor of political correctness, but also the kind of call to action one associates with fascism, not democracy. </p>
<p>I would argue that suppressing offensive humor also encourages insensitivity to grow, and leads to numbness that allows atrocities to happen. (Case in point: Yugoslavia, where decades of official suppression of ethnic tensions didn’t prevent horrible atrocities. Or western China a few weeks ago.) And it is ironic that you seem to associate offensive humor with silence, and suppression of offensive humor with something other than silence. I am more in favor of noise all around on these topics.</p>