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Tastes have changed, and honestly what offends people has changed so much now.
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But these arguments, about how free expression is defined, whether art that offends is inherently harmful, and whose sensibilities determine what art gets shown to the public, would recur again and again.
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Patel hasn’t been reluctant to fight back against reporting that displeases him.
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Cue the rattling of sabers and gnashing of teeth — until a deal is done that pleases (and displeases) both parties.
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That’s what really disgusts me.
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This baffles and outrages Angela, a protective mom who, with other parents, pushes back against Gabor using her math classroom as a forum for introducing the outside world’s worst actions.
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The content outrages some people and delights others; publishing more of it advances the meta discourse that’s been layered on top of the actual news, drawing attention from the unfolding conflict itself.
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Alcohol kills 178,000 Americans each year and sickens countless more.
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Just thinking about it totally sickens me.
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More than 30 years later, what amazes me isn’t just what that team accomplished on the field.
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This technology still amazes me.
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Sunday was another game-long display of why Wembanyama horrifies opponents from either side of the ball.
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What frightens scientists more than the sheer numbers are that the cuts are arbitrary and manifestly pernicious.
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But the future Hall of Famer is coming off ACL surgery, might lack mobility, and has a receiving corps that frightens nobody.
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“Scandalizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scandalizes. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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