4 ms·

Anyone else find it ridiculously coy that the Washington Post censors the word "fuck" in the quote that is the crux of the case. I'm sure the readers are all ad

Anyone else find it ridiculously coy that the Washington Post censors the word "fuck" in the quote that is the crux of the case. I'm sure the readers are all adults who can handle them accurately reporting the quote. Kids aren't reading the Washington Post Courts & Law section.

pessimizer 5y ago
If you don't want to swear in your newspaper, you shouldn't have to swear in your newspaper to seem "adult." People reading the Courts & Law section are also old enough to know what the fuck "f--k" means.
- ascorbic 5y ago
  They wouldn't be swearing in their paper, they'd be accurately reporting a phrase that is the subject of a Supreme Court case. It's not about seeming adult, it's about treating readers as adults who are capable of reading some naughty words in reported speech without being scandalized.
tzs 5y ago
> Kids aren't reading the Washington Post Courts & Law section. I wouldn't be so sure of that. I remember as a kid we were occasionally given homework to find an interesting current events newspaper story and bring it to class to read out loud. I remember going over all the news sections when looking for a good story, not just the sections you would have expected an ~9 year old to be interested in. I remember once finding a story in the international news section about a legislator in some other well known country that all of us kids would have heard of who had yelled during a session that some other legislator was a son of bitch, and then a fistfight broke out between them. When I brought that and read it aloud to the class and got to say "son of a bitch" in front of everyone and not get in trouble for it was the highlight of my week, and earned the admiration of all the other boys in class.
- logicchains 5y ago
  >I remember once finding a story in the international news section about a legislator in some other well known country that all of us kids would have heard of who had yelled during a session that some other legislator was a son of bitch, and then a fistfight broke out between them. Was it Australia by any chance?
sodality2 5y ago
We were asked to read this article this morning in US Government actually!
- ascorbic 5y ago
  I'd say that anyone capable of discussing this case and its implications is capable of reading the word "fuck" uncensored without being corrupted any further than by reading "f--k"
  - sodality2 5y ago
    Agreed

pessimizer 5y ago

If you don't want to swear in your newspaper, you shouldn't have to swear in your newspaper to seem "adult." People reading the Courts & Law section are also old enough to know what the fuck "f--k" means.

ascorbic 5y ago
They wouldn't be swearing in their paper, they'd be accurately reporting a phrase that is the subject of a Supreme Court case. It's not about seeming adult, it's about treating readers as adults who are capable of reading some naughty words in reported speech without being scandalized.

tzs 5y ago

> Kids aren't reading the Washington Post Courts & Law section. I wouldn't be so sure of that. I remember as a kid we were occasionally given homework to find an interesting current events newspaper story and bring it to class to read out loud. I remember going over all the news sections when looking for a good story, not just the sections you would have expected an ~9 year old to be interested in. I remember once finding a story in the international news section about a legislator in some other well known country that all of us kids would have heard of who had yelled during a session that some other legislator was a son of bitch, and then a fistfight broke out between them. When I brought that and read it aloud to the class and got to say "son of a bitch" in front of everyone and not get in trouble for it was the highlight of my week, and earned the admiration of all the other boys in class.

logicchains 5y ago
>I remember once finding a story in the international news section about a legislator in some other well known country that all of us kids would have heard of who had yelled during a session that some other legislator was a son of bitch, and then a fistfight broke out between them. Was it Australia by any chance?

sodality2 5y ago

We were asked to read this article this morning in US Government actually!

ascorbic 5y ago
I'd say that anyone capable of discussing this case and its implications is capable of reading the word "fuck" uncensored without being corrupted any further than by reading "f--k"
- sodality2 5y ago
  Agreed