It’s partly because JimRob wants this to be a family friendly site. A kid who has never heard or seen the word has only one letter to go by, the way I did it. I doubt there are many kids today who don’t know more badwords than I do. When I was a kid, we really did not know those words.
When it comes to the F-word, JimRob said the form you used is unacceptable here, but things have grown more lax here and you see lots more of that kind of thing here now. I remember the olden golden days here when you almost never saw it. Twitter effect? Reddit effect? Coarsening of society affecting Freepers, too, I guess.
“When I was a kid, we really did not know those words.”
Me too... But do you really think that now days kids do not? At some point reality has to come into the picture.
If Mr Robinson banned everyone who “hinted” at a dirty word or idea concerning “context”, there would be about ten people left to pay his bills here.
Like I say, at some point reality has to come into play.We live in new times. And we live in these new times because too many capitulated with word control.
Please let me explain a human trait. When you tell someone they are not allowed to do something they do not like being told no. So they rebel and do that very same thing even more than they normally would. In fact... They then go out of their way just to do it.
Now if you ignore it and not give it any attention they realize that their efforts did absolutely no good. Just like ignoring a troll on the internet. If they cannot get a rise out of you then they give up. (Well those with a half ass sound mind do).
There is a funny phenomenon about free speech. When you allow it, i self regulates it’s self. No one is “getting away with” anything wrong, and because there will be no punishment coming for “testing the envelope” they don’t use it.
We have experimented with this concept in our own free speech conservative forum. And what we found is that those who would normally be profane to “get away with something” just do not exercise it. Very very rarely, because it is allowed if they like.
Being allowed takes all the fun out of making it a practice and effort of rebellion with purpose. Quite amazing actually how it self polices it’s self. Which brings up a point...
If Musk had just let it go with Kanye, the community it’s self would have laughed Kanye off the board. which would have been much more devastating to him than being banned. Sometimes i is better to just “Let him have at it” and see what he gets in return for his stupidity. :)
But I know one thing, unless something is codified as illegal binary, we DO NOT want to capitulate to their “Hate speech” societal controls. Give an inch and they will take a mile. Like I said... First freedom of speech, next freedom of religion.
The writing is on the wall, and anyone who does not see it is a fool... The word “God” will be hate speech punishable by law. In fact, it already is in schools... Again we cannot be selective, i will be all, or none at all.
Your choice...