In a year at the N&R I’ve never had anyone from any department tell me I couldn’t write something because it would offend a minority group. I’ve never heard anyone in any department complain that they’ve been told that.

Now I have been told that I couldn’t write things because it might offend old white women, who make up a large part of our readership.

And once, when I was writing about the history of toasts in a first-person piece for the Life Section, a line I wrote about Irish people being good at toasts because we get so much practice was edited out so that I wouldn’t, as an Irish guy, offend Irish people.

This cartoon, which is hilarious, certainly belongs in our paper.