There is kind of a paradox going on in society: taboos against profanity, vulgarity, and sexual explicitness are crumbling, yet we have to be more and more careful what we say. But perhaps it is not a paradox, but simply the imposition of a new orthodoxy.
I’ve never understood this “N” word nonsense.
Black people are allowed to say the “N” word, but the rest of us aren’t allowed to do so.
How is it that what is said to be the most vile thing you can say to an African-American person, is permitted to be said by those same people to each other? How vile is it then?
I’ve heard some liberals say that some words are so offensive that they should never be said by anyone in any circumstances. But then you have the “N” word, which is permissible by some under some circumstances. So what are the real rules regarding profanity??
Then we live in an age of idiocy, in which we stress about American Indian sports team nicknames as part of this, yet allow more and more sexually explicit words and actions to be seen on TV and movies. Sexual profanity is apparently ok, but profanity in any other context, per liberal criteria, must be surpressed.