Ricky Gervais argues we should drop the phrasing 'that joke's offensive' and replace it with 'I found it offensive.' The first framing presents offense as an objective property of the world; the second owns it as a personal reaction. There's nothing intrinsically offensive about a joke, just as there's nothing intrinsically wrong about a leg that aches.
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