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by Kermit @, Raleigh, NC, Friday, August 21, 2015, 16:13 (3479 days ago) @ marmot 1333

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/08/jerry-seinfeld-politically-correct-college-campuses

I really, really don't want to harp on this in this context. I wouldn't post what Korny posted, and I'm probably (in)famous around here for being sensitive (at least on behalf of others) about crass language, but I'm torn because I'd be horrified if someone called me humorless. (More often than not, my concern about f-bombs and such is more about the preponderance of hyperbolic speech--a juvenile rhetorical habit akin to punctuating every sentence with exclamation points or dotting i's with hearts.)

I'm more of the Tarrantino school of puncturing the power of some words. I think that's what Louis C.K. does.

I'm kind of a radical about free speech, and I do sometimes feel we've perverted the nursery rhyme.

Sticks and stones may break our bones
But words hurt us most of all...


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