Your wrong
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Need to replace the symbols with the TP logo, but otherwise perfect.
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Perhaps this one will do:
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The good news is, this kid isn’t finished growing up. There’s still plenty of time for him to become the kind of person who’s ashamed of the things he said when he was 10. I said some pretty awful things at that age.
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It doesn’t have much to do with me.
To profane something means to make it less sacred. So straight away it depends upon having a religious point of view. It’s why going into a church and taking a dump on a pew could be considered “profaning” the church, while taking a dump in your house is not. The same goes for the term “swearing”. A swear is an oath, a promise. Saying “I will curse you and your family until my last breath” is very much a swear, while something like “I’ve got to take a fucking shit!” is not.
Most uses of the term I encounter abuse it as a synonym for whatever language they consider rude. Consider that what many people consider to be the very rudest words are simple references to biological functions. Milder phrases such as “Oh, God!” or “damn it” are actually much closer to profanity and swearing than simple toilet talk is.
Never mind the weird equivocation between supposed synonyms - why would “shit” be more rude than “crap” or “poop” if they mean precisely the same thing? People bundle meaning and value into their words and concepts in baffling ways, which even they themselves are often at a loss to explain.
To bring the discussion back on-topic, it’s not hard to come up with valid criticisms and complaints about Hillary Clinton, so if the best somebody can come up with is that she is a bitch, a scary female who is like a dog, that comes off as lazy and vaguely misogynistic.
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Yeah, unfortunately, no party has a monopoly on classlessness. Or bad parenting.
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For extra irony, “Democratic schools”, or as we call them, “schools”, are the ones trying to eliminate that kind of language. Then they are called out by Republicans for political correctness.
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You might look into the field of sociolinguistics some time to see where and how you’re going wrong here.
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His (parroting) use of ‘bitch’ fits Trump’s pattern of demonizing the opposition with scary cartoon like references. Referencing boogeymen monsters and ‘she-devils’ resonates with the bible thumping gawd luv’n white color fearing masses that are blindly following Trump.It works for them but, wow! it is a shallow tack and as you say extremely lazy. Really hard to believe really.
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Profanity covers obscenity, (any offensive “bad language”), and blasphemy, (a word or phrase insulting religion). So “bitch” can definitely be considered profane or obscene.
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I’d say that it is the opposite - that a term for any “bad language” (if there even is such a thing as bad language) would cover religious problems such as blasphemy (insults to a deity) and profanity (insults to a temple). The problem with religious terms is that there are numerous religions, and they don’t all share the same values.
For example, “demonizing” a person could be considered a good or a bad thing, depending upon what you and/or your group think about demons. The irony is that in common usage, people are quick to point out that such meanings are not universal - but in many instances people seem to forget this.
I can see the argument for considering it obscene. I don’t, to me it appears to be an attempt at a lame gendered insult. But sadly, it is expecting too much to hope for nuanced critique from those shouting at a republican rally, nevermind a ten-year-old.
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Won’t somebody think of the fucking children?!
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Technically speaking if she wants to blame a political party for the state of her schools…its a Republican school. At last check the entire system of No Child Left Behind was in fact championed and passed by a Republican president. Additionally the notion of zero tolerance (example: suspend a child for calling his teacher a bitch. for instance?) is a right-wing mentality. Democratic and left-leaning ideology is all about tolerance and great latitude.
You know…if we want to go with facts and all.
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While most of us do, I doubt she does.
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Not baffling at all, you just need to question a lot of assumptions. I had a lively conversation with my teen that began with, “what does it mean for a word to be ‘dirty’?” Language creates our reality-tunnel, so it’s powerful to hold it up to examination.
FTFY
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I got you covered:
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She means socialist schools. That’s right, the k-12 public school system is socialism at work It’s cool though, unlike govt provided healthcare, because reasons.
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Well, who’s “us”?
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Why facts? when the Trump Party is going with feelings on this one. Fact checkers and editors need not apply.
Oh and don’t forget how Texas is hijacking the schoolbook industry. Facts are parsed there for ‘correctness’ according to the conservative whims of the day.
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Sadly, Trump’s definition of “great” based on his examples, consists of Americans acting like dicks all the time.
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