New York Wages War On Dirty Words
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Big Government, The Nanny State & A Regulated Society
If government bans a word, will people still use it? Should government be in the business of regulating speech, and if you do away with an offensive word, will it really change the culture?
New York City Councilwoman Darlene Mealy certainly thinks so. She recently introduced a measure to symbolically ban the words “bitch” and “ho” in the nation’s largest city.
The move is one of many such efforts by government and other groups to at least symbolically eradicate words and phrases that they believe are harmful to society.
I could go on about Orwellian thought police and their attempts to replace English with Newspeak but I’d only be insulting your intelligence. This nonsense speaks for itself.
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