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Da jeg så den for nogle dage siden, tænkte jeg at set fra en PC synsvinkel er dette blot udtryk for høflighed. Men PC udøves så forskelligt at videoen mere er egnet til bekræftelse bland folk som er blevet trætte af hvad PC kan udarte til....

“The whole show is a little bit about offence,” he says. “The last seven years have been the age of offence. How people think they can just say, ‘I’m offended, so I don’t want to hear that ever again.’ People don’t cope with their own emotions well. If they hear something they don’t like, they think they can shut another person down rather than dealing with their own emotions.”

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Som Salman Rushdie mange steder citeres for:

Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.

If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.