If...

We've talked before about whether works of art have any intrinsic value of their own, irrespective of who created them.  The question has arisen again at the University of Manchester, where Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" has been desecrated by some students - not, so far as I can see, on the basis that it has no literary merit, but purely on the basis that - in the eyes of these students - Kipling himself was a racist and an imperialist, and therefore his work should not be displayed.  Discuss, as they would say at University (but not Manchester apparently).