Politicians say a lot of controversial and contentious things. Just that they are contentious for the different people. People that it is now OK to offend. Corporations offend a lot of people - when Coca Cola makes training that tells their employees to "try to be less white", I am sure there are plenty of folks who find it offensive. When on CRT training people are told that certain race is evil from birth, it surely is offensive to many people. It's just that they are OK with offending those people, because they think they have enough power now to ignore their opinion.