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Aug 8, 2022Liked by Ethical Skeptic ☀

I read this this a.m., and am listening to a new school superintendent at a major urban district give her speech to all school district employees. She just said "equity is a verb."

ACAN problem.

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@Barry -

If you meant "coarse" language (and it's in response to "WTSHTF") then I would respectfully note that your statement is incorrect. Some writing with coarse language is demonstrably better than that without - if you're writing a story about soldiers in war, or dockworkers, or mobsters, a story w/o vulgarity will ring so untrue as to be unreadable.

I'll concede that is generally the case for fiction narrative more often than it's non-fiction, but sometimes calling bullshit is the most effective way of communicating what's going on. Victorian sensibilities don't change that. Even the Supreme Court conceded that "Fuck the Draft" on a jacket was a viable form of protected 1A speech, as is burning a flag (though I believe the dissent's characterization of that as the "inarticulate grunt" of political speech is more true than not).

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I am so asleep this morning...Barry Okenyan are you being tongue in cheek to TES?

Course language (ha ha) reads as coarse language....

I can't understand the terminology either, would take a week of study to figure

out....

This is kinda like the BCG four squares thing with stars, cash cows, etc.

IN 3D...

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Aug 7, 2022·edited Aug 8, 2022

TES,

Please don't use coarse language. It adds to nothing in a written form of communication.

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