I need your opinion (trigger warning for language)

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Whenever you mask a word with ***, there is a slight mental decoding process that loses its power.

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The shock of the word is actually removed, which removes the writer's power when citing someone.


This is something that one of my African American Studies English professors taught. News articles cite people saying bad words, and those bad words are masked with *** and that causes a slight decoding process to occur and the display of how that word was used is diminished. People are not offended by it. This is similar to the Frank Luntz peer group forums that takes words and finds ways to either make them more palatable or more striking to audiences for the GOP to mainstream.


Racists are the ones who benefit most from this practice as it provides them cover.


He is a staunch believer that if someone says a racist term or hate speech, news agencies must cite those words verbatim to draw the full power of them to the readers. He does not condone casual use of those unfiltered words by anybody else but just by news agencies to call out the offender.

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