The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017)

Re:The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017) by computerex on Sunday May 05, 2019 @09:22AM (#19832655)

And yet when the freshman Congresswoman Rashida Talib said "we'll impeach the motherfucker" everyone lost their shit and MSNBC/CNN and any other left leaning news network dropped their shit to jump on the bandwagon of harassing her.

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Re:The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017) by chrisseaton on Sunday May 05, 2019 @10:42AM (#19833026)

I think there's a difference between swearing at inanimate things for emphasis, and swearing as in calling someone a name, which is personal abuse and shouldn't ever be tolerated no matter who it's targeted at.

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Re:The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017) by 781 on Sunday May 05, 2019 @09:40AM (#19832748)

Positive coverage in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/04/democrats-co...

Positive coverage in Vox: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/4/18168157/ra...

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Re:The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017) by denzil_correa on Sunday May 05, 2019 @10:58AM (#19833112)

> and MSNBC/CNN and any other left leaning news network dropped their shit to jump on the bandwagon of harassing her.

How was the the coverage of the right leaning news sites?

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Re:The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017) by computerex on Sunday May 05, 2019 @11:23AM (#19833237)

Really really negative coverage, but that's obvious.

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Re:The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017) by consulting420 on Sunday May 05, 2019 @04:08PM (#19834755)

The same coverage they gave Donald Trump's.

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