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Originally Posted by Frank the Tank
Well we were supposed to boycott the Davinci Code....
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Oh, yeah. But I thought we were doing that because it was TERRIBLE, not because it was offensive. My mistake, I guess.
Ordinarily, I'm all for being nice and building bridges rather than making people angry unnecesasarily. But this is the kind of thing that begs the question of where the line gets drawn. Do we stop showing Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" because it's offensive to Jewish people? Probably not--and the reason is that in that situation there's less risk of rioting and violence. But if that's the reason, then we've really lost our way--we can't start banning otherwise good works of art because we're afraid of violent repercussions elsewhere in the world. Art HAS to trump violence, or we're moving backward as a society, not forward.