re: swearing good

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Glen asks a legitimate question and claims dave and yuri have ignored 
it.  Don't know if that is true, but i will take a stab at a direct 
answer so glen can't claim he is right just because a direct answer isn't 
given.

I think that language should be acceptable at all places and at all 
times.  I am a firm believer in MOI (never won my teams many arguments on 
the media topic, but I still believe it).  We should all be able to say 
what we want, when we want.  Especially here on CEDA-L.  We are all 
collegues and should be able to handle it if yuri says "fuck you".  
What's the big deal.  I expected knee-jerk reactions to language choice 
from Pat Robertson and my grandma, not the people here.  

Now I am assuming (sorry if I am wrong) that Glen is speaking of red flag 
words like "nigger" when he talks about drawing a line for language 
somewhere.  What's the big deal.  Nothing pissed me off (made me angry, 
not a bodily function) more than the use of "The N word" on the news 
during the OJ trial.  That phrase only adds to the words power.  Let the 
MOI sort out language by letting people say what they want.  Tarantino 
said it best when attacked for the number of times "nigger" appeared in 
Pulp Fiction when he said "when a word has that much power, we should be 
shouting it from the tallest building to make it less powerful."  

In short, Glen, I don't think any lines should be drawn.



UW Oshkosh Debate Team
Patrick J. Osowski, Director
	 debate@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu

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