I've meditated on this comment, and have sorted this out: your comment appears to be raising the question, in a particularly non-face-saving way, of whether this conversation is offensive.

Because if it is offensive, then I can surely regret offending. If it isn't offensive, only then would I be projecting 'emotional fragility and thin-skinned-ness'.

I would like to point out the obvious, that if it turns out to not be offensive, then this only means that I am emotionally fragile and thin-skinned, a persona I'm happy to wear if it gives me liberty to speak out earlier than otherwise. I speak again of the discomfort I feel of 'speaking out' towards the end of this comment. I'm not sure where it comes from but it's not really a fear of being emotionally fragile. Rather, it's the confusion of not knowing where to draw the line, and looking for a line to be crossed, and wondering if the line was crossed already and you should already have said something or say something stronger.

I would guess (charitably, I hope) that you expect that any carefully measured, rational discussion of any issue should not be offensive.

However, from previous experience I simply don't trust this site to have this conversation. My prejudice is that in particular commenters here are overall too naive to notice, or too apathetic to respond appropriately, to the ways evil introduces itself into these intended rational conversations.

Humans are humans are humans everywhere. We have this potential for evil when we try to convince ourselves we're superior to another group of humans. The next step is rationalize things being different for that group of people. We've already been there, for a long time, with minorities. Things are better but they're still bad and humans are humans are always humans. I'll skip enumerating examples of the blatant racism I've encountered in my life. There's way to much hatred going on to pretend that this is 'just a question', and there is too much potential for abuse -- even if the conversation really is rational, which I believe might be possible in a closed discussion here -- due to the public nature of the conversation.

My point isn't that this question is particularly taboo (I think it's rather absurd, actually) or that a rational discussion isn't possible. I really think there are other steps that need to be taken first, for example, beginning with a panel of people specifically educated in the appropriate topic (social justice? I've no idea) to moderate and make the correct disclaimers regarding the intention of the discussion. I think we (including myself certainly, I have continuously felt extremely uncomfortable speaking out due to being so inarticulate and uninformed) are just butchering the topic, applying a hack-saw willy-nilly to a set of issues that needs some care, considering.