I’m lying? I think you just don’t like being held accountable for the things you say because it makes it harder for you to back-peddle.
You said:
They aren’t separate issues at all; the fact of someone being offended is inextricably linked to the fact of it being damaging.
So I guess I need to break it down and explain what you said back to you. Inextricably linked means they are impossible to separate, they are together forever and always. Now you said it is linked to “it being damaging.” You say in this very statement, very clearly, that all offenses are linked to being damaging. I’m not lying I’m just confronting you with what you said as you try to back-peddle and shift the narrative by introducing things like “perceived harm” instead of damaging like you originally said.