Pew: Americans on offensive speech: people are too sensitive, but people are also too offensive
“About two-thirds of U.S. adults (65%) say that ‘people being too easily offended’ is a major problem in the country today, while a slimmer majority – 53% – say that ‘people saying offensive things to others’ is a major problem” - Pew
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…let’s define “offensive”. I’m guessing that different groups of people have some very different notions of what constitutes offensive speech, so I’m somewhat dubious of the results here being very meaningful.
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Pew details the survey methodology, “including Questionnaire development and testing,” here: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/political-typology-appe…
The questionnaire is here: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/11…
I would add that it’s a survey of perceptions. Nobody’s trying to measure “objectively offensive,” whatever that might possibly be.
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