Len Gutkin, “Reading for Sins,” in Liberties:

In fact, the deep logic of any given taboo expresses important, and in some cases perfectly rational, societal commitments. The prerational aspect of any taboo isn’t necessarily the social argument it reflects, but the disabling emotions that its violation elicits.

And “snowflake hermeneutics” is a great tag, too. There is probably a degree of overlap with a certain kind of ideologically inflected hermeneutics in biblical and theological studies. Bears further thought.