Salman Rushdie
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They've canceled the prize giving because they have people attacking them for not being sufficiently anti-Israeli or pro-Palestinian or something.
Right.
I mean, everybody's so angry right now.
that nobody can listen or talk to anybody else.
So people just shout at each other.
Everybody's an expert.
Everybody's got an opinion.
And a hostility.
And hostility.
The level of anger is crazy right now.
I think to an extent it is.
I mean, I don't know, frankly, I'm glad you asked me because I have the answer to the world's problems.
Yeah, I mean, I just think
People have to stop having such thin skins.
At the moment, we're all very easily offended.
And what's more is we also believe that being offended is a sufficient reason for attacking something.
But actually, everything offends somebody.
Always.
Always.
I mean, occasionally you.