"Poets and story-tellers are guilty of making the gravest misstatements when they tell us that wicked men are often happy, and the good miserable....these things we shall forbid them to utter, and command them to sing and say the opposite." Plato, The Republic https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1027208541587816448 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I don't think that's Pinker's point. He's not talking about bad substance, rather just a mentioning of the word(s).
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Replying to @BluishCheckMark
Pretty sure that people who object to the n-word aren't objecting to any incantatory power but to role it plays in social life (i.e. exactly Plato's objection to bad messages of poets & singers).
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