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I'm reading Cathy's piece on the incident now, and realized a completely obvious point that escaped me as I read this yesterday: The Bulwark showed the painting, and I appreciate that you did. Otherwise, I would have had to try to find the painting for myself to see what it was that was so catastrophic for this student to see, the student who was given ample warning and every opportunity not to voluntarily expose herself to it. Furthermore, you all showing it will invite the same sort of vitriol and danger if the wrong people find out that you showed it; South Park, some time after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, wanted to depict the prophet Mohammed in an episode but was censored from doing so out of fear of retribution.

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