If you do not consider yourself a bad person—three out of four of you—you should mind your language and earnestly refrain from using bad language.
Bad language makes you a bad person!
Bad language is used only by bad people and/or people who are bad at articulating their thoughts, feelings and emotions in a clear, effective and intelligent way; people who use bad language as a crutch in their desperate attempt to attain a perception of authenticity. When they are agitated, irritated, perturbed, frustrated, flabbergasted, stupefied, exasperated, incensed, indignant, apoplectic or ballistic, they can’t seem to find good language to express their otherwise bad feelings and emotions.
A big part of this problem is the pervasiveness of bad language. When people get barrages of bad language from colleagues at work, classmates at school, hosts from talk shows, actors from TV shows and movies, they’re more susceptible to desensitization and to ignoring and/or overlooking the simple logic that the pervasiveness of bad language does not make it any less foul.
Consider one talk show host with 3.01 million Rumble subscribers. On his September 8, 2023, podcast, he said the following regarding a New York mom whose profanity-laced tirade against immigration and school policies had just gone viral: “Listen to me, please: I grew up there. I spent 20-plus years in and around New York …. Everybody talks like this. Not an excuse. Just an explanation. It’s not even considered vulgar. It’s not. It’s just how people talk.”
As a society, we should never have allowed things to get this bad, and we now all have a lot of work to do to not only stop this trend but also to reverse it.
Consider another talk show host with 1.6 million YouTube subscribers. On her podcast on May 2, 2023—a couple of weeks before Mother’s Day—she shared the following text message exchanges that she had with her mother:
Mother of Host: “Did Tucker get fired? Read something on Twitter.”
Host: “Yes. Biggest story in the country this week. They fired him out of the blue on Monday.”
Mother of Host: Where can I follow the reason?”
Host (sarcastically): “If we only knew someone who covers news and news-related events daily on her show. …”
Host: “Well, you could listen to my show where we’ve been leading with it all week.”
Mother of Host: “Yes, yes. No swearing though.”
Less than a minute later, the host used bad language, interjected with a quick “Sorry Mom,” and continued on with the occasional swearing that dots her show.
As a society, we urgently need to do more to disincentivize bad language and incentivize good language.
I believe there basically are two types of people. One type considers themselves to be good people who mind their language, respect the people around them, and refrain from using bad language. The other type considers themselves to be bad people who don’t mind their language, don’t respect the people around them, and don’t have moral qualms about using bad language.
Hopefully, there’s another type of people which considers themselves to be good people but, somehow, ignored or overlooked the language prerequisites that come with being considered good people. They mean well; they just need to always consider the connection between how good their language is and how good their character is.
The good language prerequisite for being considered good people is one of the main internal prods we need to mind our language and stop the wild spread of bad, foul and perverse language.
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