People get offended about everything and anything. its futile. Some people get offended by an off color gif or joke. IMO, and this is JUST MY OPINION and its fine to disagree and I have no authority so my opinion don't mean jack...the shut down of opinions that happened during the discussions were more to blame for some leaving then the fact we had the discussion at all. Even if I agreed with the point some were making I didn't understand why there had to be a ganging up and attack of certain views, even if I thought those views were wrong. So what. Let them say it. Then you can engage with them on it and have a civil debate, or ignore it. But there was some degree of "gang up on that WRONG view" thing going on and that pissed off certain people.