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To: Starboard
Attempting to sanitize speech is a never ending and futile job.

You're absolutely right. I'm just tired of casual vulgarity that permeates everything in our culture. Yeah, even in the 80's, "faggot" was pretty mild. But now, every other word that comes out of the mouths of college students is some sort of profanity. I'm glad there are still some standards being enforced, even if it's a losing battle.

51 posted on 02/18/2014 1:30:45 PM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

I tried to tell our kids that vulgarity and swearing was a poor substitute for thoughtful speech. Far better to strive for creative verbal expression than injecting meaningless profanity into the conversation IMO.


68 posted on 02/18/2014 2:13:18 PM PST by Starboard
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