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Everyone is making offensive ads these days, if only because the public is so easily offended. Creating such ads, then pulling them amid profuse apologies, has become de rigeur. (I’m not sure what de rigeur means, but it’s French and sounds classy.) Maybe the summer heat is making tempers flare, but just this past week: Mars withdrew a U.K. Snickers commercial some called homophobic; New Yorkers worried about pro-Muslim ads set for display in the city’s subways; and animal rights groups complained
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