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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]R B Garr
(16,954 posts)By any journalistic standards, as I'm sure you learned in your journalism classes, vulgarity is approached with caution if not just outright rejection. I doubt you or anyone you know uses the word "c--t" in your writings. I highly doubt you use much vulgarity or obscenity, and that is just basic common sense.
As far as quoting or referencing Sabrina, I have to disagree with you again there, as well. From what I've seen of her position, she is not even acknowledging that the word was used in this latest reference to SKP. But as I said earlier, if someone calls you a "sock cucker", they are not talking about socks. So if she's in denial about the use of the word/slur, then taking anything seriously she says after that is rather meaningless. We also can't talk about other DU'ers like this because of the alerters, so that's not a good idea to continue with analyzing her position, which appears to be false from the start.
Anyway, I know this is the internet and journalistic standards don't necessarily apply, but I look at it that some are just saying that not every corner of the internet has to be a belching fart sack, so to speak. They just are saying it in a lot nicer way than I just did, and I agree with them.