If there's truth to the equation "offensiveness times media amplification equals social damage," well, we can't control the offensiveness, but we can control the amplification.
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Granted, there's no statute of limitations on a word's offensiveness.
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The sheer offensiveness of the action is what's more important.
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This unique combination of murderousness and offensiveness is who Duterte is.
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Those are probably the most offensive, if the metric is offensiveness.
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The Badlands versions change the targets without always diluting the offensiveness.
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The offensiveness, of course, actually had nothing to do with olives.
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And I think that's in a different league in terms of offensiveness.
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His brashness, his offensiveness, his immaturity — none of this is an act.
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His character flaws and offensiveness were well-known prior to the 2016 election.
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I'd frame it as something like: Offensiveness times media amplification equals social damage.
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The offensiveness of the meme, for some transgender readers, couldn't be wiped away.
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Houellebecq indulges in his trademark offensiveness, but the misogynist jabs feel pro forma.
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But when you&aposre talking about the workplace, offensiveness is not the primary problem.
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An example like that illustrates why offensiveness to an audience can't justify stopping speech.
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The students' own tactics reveal just how malleable the concept of offensiveness can be.
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Getting upset over this comes across as low-hanging fruit on the tree of offensiveness.
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Amid debate over its offensiveness, the billboard came down on Tuesday, the company said on Twitter.
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And so there's still a chance he simply implodes under the weight of his own offensiveness.
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Still, the move seems misguided on a deeper level than its potential offensiveness to particular athletes.
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The participants first completed a questionnaire asking them to rate the offensiveness of 10 swear words.
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"Most will say ho-hum, that doesn't begin to describe the offensiveness of the conduct," he said.
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Hashtags have spread to raise awareness of its offensiveness and to try to put an end to it.
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And Cuomo has come under criticism for minimizing the offensiveness of the n-word in the recent past.
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By contrast, the offensiveness of political comments posted to Reddit varied much more over the two-year period.
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I've never seen an actor so good at and so seemingly obsessed with performing instinct, subtext and offensiveness.
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But when you start to look at what it's really saying, its absurdity -- and offensiveness -- becomes obvious 5.
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She talks about how he has played "really serious assholes" but his charm offsets the offensiveness of his characters.
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All of this effortful offensiveness would have been fine by me if the film was funny, but it isn't.
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Both Sheffield and Williams said the campaign's offensiveness is detracting from the legitimate issue of PTSD among first responders.
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We may be coming to a point in American politics where public accomplishment is secondary to offensiveness in politicians.
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He weaponizes outrageousness, offensiveness, and identity cues to capture a share of political coverage unknown in the modern era.
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The ruling defused a long-running legal argument that the offensiveness of the nickname "Redskins" violated federal trademark law.
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We also believe that attempts to outlaw something as subjective as offensiveness poses a serious danger to freedom of expression.
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She doesn't care if her characters are likable; she believes that the friction of offensiveness can push a debate forward.
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They are: drunken rambling, cryptic remarks that confuse everyone, offensiveness (accidental or otherwise), pontification, and my personal favorite, unnecessary eroticism.
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Although the restaurant has been open since December, the offensiveness of the Uncle Tom burger wasn't noticed until last week.
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Just as outrage over Ms Hill's treatment triggered a surge of women into politics, Mr Trump's offensiveness is also motivating women.
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Others, like Graham and Harris, are either falling in line behind the president or twisting his words to downplay their offensiveness.
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" The extremity of Trump's offensiveness forces us to take the bait, to "weigh in as being opposed to this vile thing. . . .
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According to Justice Kennedy, the Commission showed religious bias because it substituted its own assessment of "offensiveness" in dismissing the claims.
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Steve King of Iowa from his committee assignments when he seemed to question the offensiveness of white supremacist and white nationalist ideologies.
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Alerting non-Trump voters to Trump's offensive remarks only works for people who'd find that offensiveness a problem in the first place.
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Coaches hoping for offensive cohesiveness in the critical third exhibition game, before starters mostly sit out the finale, received cohesive offensiveness instead.
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Fair-minded people can hold differing views on what our national flag means, and by extension, the relative offensiveness of burning it.
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One features a painfully twisted sculpture of a penis on display in a gallery with an ape viewer hyperventilating at its offensiveness.
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This is the danger in making jokes rooted in ironic offensiveness, even when you're a master of the form (like Silverman is).
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Judging from the comments on the Parisian Heist tweet, however, it seems opinions on this particular costume's offensiveness continues to be hotly debated.
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But we shouldn't be fooled into thinking that the only problem with a speaker like Mr. Spencer is the offensiveness of his views.
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And at a lower threshold of offensiveness—merely distasteful rather than outright deplorable, say—91% of Mr Trump's voters scored above the national average.
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West never acknowledges the epidemic of violence toward black trans women, and the single sentence about Booker feels perfunctory to the point of offensiveness.
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The firm tracked 10 words, ranging in levels of offensiveness from "crap" to words that are not fit to print in a family newspaper.
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It is plausible that the manager was ignorant of the offensiveness of the phrase, and the employee who felt uncomfortable should consider that possibility.
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The ironic offensiveness and shocking humor is meant to spur a reaction that hopefully guides you to a similar sense of caring and sincerity.
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I can't say if he knew what he was actually saying or not, but he did stop using that term once we explained it's offensiveness.
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Just in case his offensiveness crosses a line, CHOI Radio X, which broadcasts his frenetic show, employs a 40-second delay when he is broadcasting.
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Some remain consistent sources of wonder and awe and provocation for century upon century; others, removed from their context, curdle into irrelevance, if not offensiveness.
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This is frequently seen as an issue for job seekers, who are advised to go over their social media posts with an eye for potential offensiveness.
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But most voters find Mr Trump's troublemaking and offensiveness off-putting; 67% say he does not have the "temperament or character" to be an "effective president".
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Animation offers Mr. Rogen, Mr. Goldberg and their squad new ways to be naughty, and also blunts the potential offensiveness of some of the older ways.
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He also repeatedly sidestepped questions about offensiveness of such an act, and refused again and again to resign despite the numerous calls for him to do so.
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"I can't say if he knew what he was actually saying or not, but he did stop using that term once we explained [its] offensiveness," he added.
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Early on in this election, when Donald Trump was still a novelty, the political press did an admirable job being shocked by his ignorance, offensiveness, and recklessness.
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C. movement is too beholden to gadfly politics—too interested in shock and offensiveness as political strategies—to address the problematic dearth of conservative voices on campus.
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It will also allow users to flag additional images and categories as offensive, an acknowledgement that "offensiveness is subject and also constantly evolving," the ImageNet team writes.
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Through a long career he has used offensiveness as a form of resistance — political, personal — and just by doing so given everyone permission to do the same.
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Any defense of offensiveness is a slippery slope into South Park, but it is possible to both value commentary and consider its collateral damage when stripped of intent.
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Neither offensiveness nor high culture references can disguise the lurking suspicion that the writer is as shallow and limited in his understanding of the world as his protagonist.
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For reasons like these, the Court's cases have long prohibited the government from justifying a First Amendment burden by pointing to the offensiveness of the speech to be suppressed.
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The anger and offensiveness is the pointAt Business Insider's GOP debate last week, both Weld and Walsh admitted that they originally found Trump's style of anti-political correctness appealing.
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The images in "Endless Poetry" are arresting and sometimes disturbing, but there is an earnest commitment to ecstasy and authenticity that renders moot any question of offensiveness or exploitation.
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Apart from all the hiring Trump would have to do anyhow, his offensiveness and grotesque unfitness for office is likely to lead to an unusual number of civil-service departures.
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Satire can be done well at the movies; The Hunt is so pleased with its offensiveness that, like the worst self-proclaimed provocateurs, it just falls flat on its face.
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"Snatched" is one of those movies that subscribes to a dubious homeopathic theory of cultural insensitivity by which the acknowledgment of offensiveness is supposed to prevent anyone from taking offense.
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Although many drooled over the red carpet looks and are awestruck by the exhibition, some are complaining about what they see as the tastelessness — and even offensiveness — of the theme.
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With McGregor's smack talk devolving further into racial offensiveness, and Mayweather's history of domestic abuse allegations and his own offensive smack talk, some question the very ethics of watching the fight.
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In its new miniseries incarnation, it wants to be a dumb show, full of clichés, that has something to say, and you'd be surprised how easily that tilts over into outright offensiveness.
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The tycoon's habitual offensiveness and displays of flabbergasting ignorance have set a high bar for gaffes; this is a candidate who entered the race calling Mexicans rapists and promising to reverse globalisation.
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The British comedian took back the reigns from Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, turning what for the past three years has been a boozy, fun celebration into a bitter stew of offensiveness.
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During the week of and following Election Day, we see similar levels of offensiveness — during these two weeks, nearly one of every 10 political comments posted on Reddit was classified as offensive.
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Unfortunately, freedom of speech has come under siege, especially in Europe, as governments seek to eradicate "hate" and "offensiveness" at the expense of the right of their own citizens to express themselves.
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Ironic offensiveness is far too easy to twist into the idea that nothing is worth caring about, and that getting those who do care to lash out is the funniest thing possible.
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The first thing to note is that roughly 8 percent of nonpolitical comments are classified as offensive, and that this level of offensiveness is remarkably consistent over the entire period that we examine.
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Perhaps just as striking as the increase in offensiveness during the general election campaign is the fact that in the two months following the election, offensive speech on political Reddit remained quite high.
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Bearing the title of "Mock the Vote," the signage-based exhibit is a crescendo of satire, cynicism, and all-out offensiveness that will open the evening of election day at 24 Bowery in Manhattan.
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Mr Trump's offensiveness is also a worry for the many Republican congressmen who are up for re-election in November—and maintaining Republican control of both houses is one of Mr Ryan's main responsibilities.
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Those are the values that go out via the API, and users can choose to look up more information or context in the larger database, including location, frequency, level of offensiveness, and so on.
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Several times in Nanette, she critiques the male voices that dominate comedy, punctuating the tension with comments like "just jokes" or "lighten up," appropriating the average comedian's default, flippant response to accusations of bigotry or offensiveness.
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I love a lot of those artists very much, but it was taken up in the sort of way that I think a lot of people could say bordered on a kind of racial offensiveness or racism.
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For the Republican leaders who recoil in horror at Mr Trump's careless populism, his offensiveness and his frequent trampling over conservative causes such as free trade, Mr Rubio's poor showing was perhaps the biggest story of primary night.
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While James is making our ears bleed with his excruciating singing and scattershot offensiveness (he describes President Obama as "a mulatto," then admits he doesn't know what the word means), Ms. Arnow wonders if he's good dating material.
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Hours before President Donald Trump posted racist tweets about four women Democratic members of Congress, a senior Chinese diplomat managed to match his offensiveness, setting off a small uproar when he repeated a stereotype of a Washington, DC, neighborhood.
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"If Mr. Rouhani's government had reacted reciprocally from the beginning to the broken promises of America and Europe, they (the Americans and Europeans) would not have reached this level of offensiveness and arrogance," an article in the newspaper said on Thursday.
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As offensive as it may be to have a man refuse to shake hands with her based on her gender, the First Amendment does not permit mere offensiveness of behavior to override the freedoms of belief and the expression it guarantees.
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All movements, to be sure, are pressed to do so—just look at the chorus of pundits wringing their hands about the potential offensiveness of protests against Donald Trump or in favor of some measure of justice for black victims of state violence.
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More deeply, they are taken by the white man's nostalgia of Trump's message, his call for a return to an older style of bluntness—and offensiveness—about race and ethnicity that once pervaded the culture, reinforcing white supremacy under the guise of amusement.
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But as it has evolved into a blatant matchmaking service, Fazzina has faced criticism from those concerned about victims and community safety and the general offensiveness of giving these guys—particularly those on domestic-related charges—a chance to set up dates.
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Yet the offensiveness of his "bad manners" doesn't eclipse the merit of his dissent, and the backlash is ultimately an old storyline within the history of the martial arts, which affected Bruce Lee and others who dared to pull the curtain really far back.
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Back then, Haley's move — which followed the shooting of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church — seemed to bring a close to the long-simmering question of whether the flag, and Confederate nostalgia more broadly, had an acceptable place in American politics despite its offensiveness to black Americans.
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One of the advantages of this positioning is that once listeners are convinced that you're not trying to deceive them in the manner of a regular politician, they may switch off the critical faculties they usually apply to political speech and forgive you any amount of exaggeration, contradiction, or offensiveness.
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The painting is relentless, funny, intense, and intentionally offensive to the common Minnesotan; it includes the figure of Paul Bunyan penetrating Babe the Blue Ox. The image hammers home the offensiveness of the art in the State Capitol building — which looms over all the inane action happening in Denomie's composition.
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The tedium of my version would be surpassed only by its offensiveness.) "Love, Nina" was published in the United States in 2014, and Stibbe followed it a year later with a novel called "Man at the Helm," which read like the fictional equivalent of a ramshackle cottage (meandering blueprint, plenty of charm).
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Ginsburg wrote in her dissent that "Phillips declined to make a cake he found offensive where the offensiveness of the product was determined solely by the identity of the customer requesting it," adding, "I see no reason why the comments of one or two Commissioners should be taken to overcome Phillips' refusal to sell a wedding cake."
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In terms of cultural offensiveness, their music lands somewhere between the condescending blandness of white rappers like Iggy Azalea or Lil Debbie — ICP winning points only because they don't affect a blaccent — and the sound your stomach makes after you eat gas station meatloaf, a preamble to a far worse fate in, oh, let's say 45 minutes.
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A collaboration between Terrill and fellow artist Teddy Sandoval, resulting in a series of t-shirts printed with the words Maricón (Spanish for "faggot") and Malflora ("dyke"), reinvested "a term of social disenfranchisement and offensiveness to empower it in a social project that allows for new ways of imagining your queer and Latino self," said Robb Hernández, a professor of Latino/a literature at UC Riverside.
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What's been interesting, too, is watching many of the comedians in question — including Gunn and Black but also folks like Sarah Silverman, Sacha Baron Cohen, and South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone — try to figure out how to navigate an era when the ironic offensiveness they trafficked in has been co-opted by a movement that insists they always meant it, deep down.
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