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Some say that comedy should be able to include such references. Others are happiest when these jokes and jokesters are cancelled.
The controversy raged on when the UK’s “Courtauld Institute,” reportedly a key Art History site, marketed items that spoofed Van Gogh’s eccentricities. Critics felt that selling ear-shaped erasers made light of mental illness.
After a certain amount of public outcry, Courtauld removed such items. The question then becomes: When does sensitivity become oversensitivity, insofar as freedom of expression is concerned?
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