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When an artist or author insults a minority purposefully in order to draw attention to his work. Must result in a death threat. Refers to the author Salman Rushdie whose book The Satanic Verses caused a fatwah to be ordered on him by Muslim clerics. This garnered him huge attention and infamy, thereby unintentionally upping his celebrity and attention to the book.
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