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.
That is absolutely true. But it misses the point… nobody has said that the vendor shouldn’t have the right to sell the shirt. The vendor considered the evidence, and chose not to sell the shirt. You seem to be angry about that.
If I was angry, I don’t feel it now, it’s a lot of effort to carry anger over stupid things for a long period of time. If it was the vendor’s choice of his own free will, and not due to a fear of severe backlash on social media, then I see no reason not to be okay with it.