Author: Omar Belhaj Salah
Omar Belhaj Salah is a Tunisian writer based in Berlin, Germany.
On the Freedom to Offend
The freedom to offend is the freedom to criticize, the freedom to ridicule, and the freedom to treat irrational choices with humor—not because a person could not possibly deserve to be offended but because everyone deserves better. Criticism and humor are among the most preferred alternatives to brute physical force for inducing change from a …