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A Point of View: Roger Scruton: Offensive Jokes

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United We Fall

06/11/2015

Roger Scruton: Offensive Jokes

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Roger Scruton argues for the freedom to make jokes that others may find offensive.

Roger Scruton says people must feel free to express opinions and make jokes that others may find offensive - censoring them only leads to a loss of reasoned argument.

Roger Scruton says we must feel free to express opinions and to make jokes that others may find offensive; censoring them them only leads to a loss of reasoned argument. 
"The policing of the public sphere with a view to suppressing 'racist' opinions has caused a kind of public psychosis, a sense of having to tip-toe through a minefield, and to avoid all the areas where the bomb of outrage might go off in your face."
Producer: Sheila Cook.

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