This is a very thorny subject.

I subscribe to the school that believes that everyone is responsible for their own feelings.
The kernel of objectionable (writing, movies, whatever) is intent.

If someone deliberately sets out to offend me, mine, or something which I hold dear, then I will offend them right back, in spades.
I neither want nor need any Thought-Police looking after my interests.

We are in real danger of becoming a generation of dishonesty, where we judge actions/writings/attitudes of the past in the forum of the present. Always a dangerous proposition.

Winstone Churchill said, 'If we try to move forwards while looking backwards, we are going to fall over things.' or words to that effect.

There was a case not too long ago where recently uncovered journals of a French exploratory party in late 18th century Australia made derogatory remarks about the indigenous people. There is a movement now to have those remarks expunged from the journals. This is outrageous in my opinion. As misguided, insensitive or just simply profoundly inaccurate as these comments may be, they are still historical comment and as such should be sacrosanct.
Allow people to read them and to comment on them. But to remove them is just plain wrong.

Are we so wimpish that we cannot read, absorb, and judge comment and opinion (with which we disagree) for ourselves?

My two cents worth.


PE