I do begrudge people expecting everyone else to fall in line with their choices
To be clear… “people” weren’t involved in making “everyone” do what they said. ONE person highlighted ONE t-shirt to the boss of ONE company. The boss agreed it was offensive.
The little picture of text heavily implied that everyone should fall in line with the person who wrote it.
I just don’t get why your right to offend someone is more important to you than the fact that you might be offending someone.
Speech that is offensive is much more important to protect than non-offensive speech, as offensive speech is the only speech that is questioned anyway. Again, bringing this to Star Trek, many of the ideas then were considered offensive at the time, women wrote in saying they didn’t like the female first officer! Did they change to stop causing offense? A bit, but not really. It didn’t change their mindset.
I presume they wrote these letters after The Menagerie aired, as The Cage never aired in it’s original form in the 60’s. I know the network suits allegedly put pressure on Gene Roddenberry to lose the character of Number One.
Viewers getting upset over a one shot character presented in the context of a flashback from 13 years in the past, that’s not even a current crew member, is a good definition of people who have too much time on their hands. 😉