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Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated.

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Mark Steyn
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 8
Film Critic
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City of Toronto
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