“Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re in the right.” Ricky Gervais was directing this at conservatives, but it more readily applies to progressives. Consider Planet Fitness’ banning a female member for complaining that a transgendered woman was using the women’s locker room. Or Elton John’s boycotting Dolce & Gabbana for the designers’ opposition to in vitro fertilization. Why is the woman in the wrong for being uncomfortable sharing a locker room with a person who is still biologically male? Having children born through IVF, Elton John’s offense to their opposition is understandable. But why does that put him in right? I mean, really–the audacity of Italian designers to have beliefs consistent with Roman Catholicism.
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