Combat
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The interesting thing about censorship is that it brings more attention to subject matter than simply letting it go. Whenever a school or library bans a book in the US, the sales increase ten fold. It just makes people more interested. I don't specifically recall much about this FT espisode (other than it being very funny) but the humor seems more directed at the character for being a bit of a fool than at racism. In otherwords the whole point is that folks who behave like this are foolish and out of touch, not that racism is humorous.