A while back a man sued the local council when he dived into surf and hit sand and he won.So footpaths had grinding to smooth out bumps and taps had hot water warnings. About time, too. Heatwave : weather bureau. The BoM owes an explanation.

This is a classic example of how you can string together all kinds of incidents and opinions (from a countless number or supply of such incidents and opinions) to make a rhetorical argument.

Anyone can do this to "prove" any argument.

Applied "traditional" politics 101:
In the good old olden days when the white man ruled unchallenged and the darkies and the "heathen savages" knew their place (as slaves), or the necessary "collateral damage" in the white man's "god"-given drive/imperative to bring the Christian "god" and "civilization" to the "un-churched heathen savages".
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/mural/panel13.html
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/mural/panel21.html

The more recent version of the same. Note the unspeakably vile sado-masochistic snuff/splatter film being reviewed here:
http://www.logosjournal.com/hammer_kellner

Never mind too that the USA will soon have its first post-truth "reality"-TV "star" President in which the meaning and significance of present time, and historical facts change almost every time that the pussy-grabber-in-chief sends out a Tweet.
Never mind too he has single handedly trashed all of the spoken and unspoken precedents which at least kept some kind of relatively civilized decorum as to how the game of politics was played in the USA up until now.

Strangely enough most/all of those who call themselves "conservative" are elated at the the victory of this Beavis and Butthead buffoon.

I like ttbn's style here
The really 'offensive' thing is that the permanently offended are usually the greatest offenders, treating the rest of us like idiots, believing that we are going to accept their PC garbage. They even want more draconian laws to MAKE us accept their unworldly gutlessness.

Very very true.
It is not about being offended, it is about power over.
It is, 'you'll do what I say'!
Politicians have thought 'Crikey, there's a vote here'.
More inane laws are formulated, more contempt of the law is generated.
The vote is there, for a while, until the majority of 'busy folk' wake up and elect someone who does not put up with the BS.
Trump!
Here we have Hanson.

This is where the 'commissars of allowable opinion' get their comeuppance, the Backlash.

You can see it happening. Bring it on.

Oh yeah :-)

Trump offends Daffy Snowflake Duck. Trump gets easily offended , I just hate that.

Meanwhile the left has no real political power hardly anywhere in the world.
Remember the old maxim about how power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It seems to me that for the next two years at least, until the mid term elections Trump and his power seeking acolytes have almost unlimited power to impose their benighted power-and-control agendas, even while mouthing off about "freedom"

But even so during the last 8 years the right-wing Repugnants have been using every dirty rule and convention bending and breaking trick to impose their agendas in the USA, as described by an essay titled:
The Most Loathsome Republican: Mitch McConnell Does the GOP's Dirty Work While All Eyes Follow Trump by Steven Rosenberg

Plus this essay on how right-wing Repugnants are now completely unhinged from anything which is usually considered to be reality.

Understanding the Right-Wing Media Alternate Universe & the Twisted 'Truths' They Report by the media scholar Todd Gitlin via Moyers & Co.
Moyers & Co being a forum for good old fashioned well reasoned fact-based sanity.

The next election is just north of two years away and bound to be used as a virtual referendum on gay rights/marriage equality!

This is a problem for the Author and his ilk? Who are constrained in the rubbish they can write or verbalize by the (snowflake) laws they regularly critique?

That said and if they truly believe their views represent the majority view? Bring on that election!
Alan B.