[poet]

When being pedantic, it's best to be right: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/innocuous.

    1: producing no injury : harmless
    
    2: not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility : inoffensive, insipid

[gnosis]

But it was likely to give offense, and did give offense (as is evident by the responses he got).