1)Does "This really got to me" mean "This really hurt me"?
2)Does "I didn’t say quite that" mean "I didn’t point which religion it was"?
Background info:
The cartoon was worse. As I have often done before, I suggested that one final trick of a desperate religion (
I didn’t say quite that this time) is to forbid laughter. I warned any devout Muslims in the audience to look away as I showed one of the Danish
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/02/03/the-caricatures-themselves/. It’s so simple – just a bunch of terrorists arriving in heaven to be told, “Stop, stop, we ran out of virgins’. That normally gets a good laugh – along with sympathy for the cartoonists threatened with death for something so innocuous. Not this time. More walked out.
I called out to some as they left, ‘Can’t you even listen to ideas you disagree with? In Oxford, of all places, you should be open-minded enough to hear alternative views’. But no. They said I needed an open mind.
This really got to me, raising painful memories of my early research on psychics and clairvoyants who said, ‘You just don’t have an
open mind,’ when my careful experiments showed no psychic powers. By the time I moved on to showing Internet memes and viral videos more than half the audience was gone.