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Offensiveness is not a property of a discussion, it's a property of a relationship between an action like speech or a discussion and a person, the offended person. For every discussion, there are possible minds who would be offended by it.
Error: word undefined. Any definition implicates not only a theory of facts of the world but also a theory of values.
Why do you speak primarily of hatred, rather than of other emotions, or of thoughts, or of consequences? For example, it is possible to feel hated while actually being despised, envied, or not thought of at all; one can only infer another's emotions, it's an unsure thing.
Your enemies are not innately evil. When you infer only one meaning from someone's speech, it is not necessarily what they meant, and the notion both the listener and the speaker may have that the speech only had one meaning is a failure of inferential distance. These are the most important disclaimers.