We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.

— Pascal Bruckner The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism (2010)

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