In what a major French LGBT rights group called a “significant victory”, three people were convicted in a Paris court this week after they accompanied tweets with hashtags including “let’s burn the gays on…“ or “#brûlonslesgayssurdu).”
While I do agree that it isn’t right to go around bashing people and saying hateful things… Do people have a right not to be offended? What will be the end result, or unintended result of everyone being offended? Will we have to watch every word that comes out of our mouths because someone, somewhere, will take offense? Especially since that offense may include fines, and jail time.
