15 years later you might lose your job over the statement because someone was offended.
It boils down to issues of “personal responsibility”. Your example is just one of millions, of the denial of personal responsibility. Being offended is a choice. A very poor choice I might add, but a choice non the less. Choices have consequences on the chooser, NOT on the one accused of doing something that caused a poor choice to be made by a chooser.
In the pc world, black is white, truth is relative, and the world is upside down. Shades of gray discolor reality to the degree there is no reality. The foundational principles upon which the Republic was founded, have been shown the door, and we descend into a no fault hell, in which there is plenty of fault to go around, just the wrong people are blamed, and those truly to blame remain innocent little lambs.
Being offended is sort of a version of what used to be called a guilt trip it seems.