There's a lot of whinging around at the moment - people claiming that anything 'offensive' to their ears should be banned.
Nonsense: I don't want to live in a world in which I hear nothing with which I disagree. I want to hear my opponents, then put them in camps (I believe this is the core argument against prior licensing of printed material in Milton's Areopagitica).
Philip Pullman says it better than I could:
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