{"id":50436,"date":"2022-07-18T02:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T06:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/uncategorized\/the-lesson-of-carlins-dirty-words-the-wall-street-journal.php"},"modified":"2022-07-18T02:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T06:23:03","slug":"the-lesson-of-carlins-dirty-words-the-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/censorship\/the-lesson-of-carlins-dirty-words-the-wall-street-journal.php","title":{"rendered":"The Lesson of Carlins Dirty Words &#8211; The Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Now everyone is walking around wondering what they can say and censoring themselves and, as a result, lowering the standards of discussion and thought. Sounds like 2022, but the guy who said this was arrested 50 years ago this week on a charge of disorderly conduct, profanity. Weve come a long way but seem to be looping back.<\/p>\n<p>Comedian George Carlin was performing at Summerfest in Milwaukee on July 21, 1972, doing his then-current routine noting the absurdity that there are more ways to describe dirty words than there are dirty words: dirty, bad, filthy, foul, vile, vulgar, off-color, blue, naughty, bawdy, saucy, raunchy, street language, gutter talk, locker-room talk, barracks language, indecent, in poor taste, suggestive, cursing, cussing, swearing, profanity, obscenity, and all I could think of were... He then listed what will forever be known as the seven words you cant say on television. I wont repeat them, but I bet many of you can rattle them off from memory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Original post: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-lesson-of-carlins-dirty-words-social-media-censorship-profanity-comedy-language-discourse-offsense-television-cancel-culture-11658059965?mod=hp_trending_now_opn_pos4\" title=\"The Lesson of Carlins Dirty Words - The Wall Street Journal\">The Lesson of Carlins Dirty Words - The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Now everyone is walking around wondering what they can say and censoring themselves and, as a result, lowering the standards of discussion and thought. Sounds like 2022, but the guy who said this was arrested 50 years ago this week on a charge of disorderly conduct, profanity. Weve come a long way but seem to be looping back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}