text: "I want to make clear, because we're having a public meeting, that I find this view offensive," Ordonez said. "When you are saying that a culture is more prone to crime, I think that's an offensive view."
  
  Here we go again. You're offended.  So what?  It's completely irrelevant to the discussion.  When society shuts down speech because somebody is offended, it is no longer a free society.