the exact same way that parents have been doing it for decades, if not longer: "those are adult words, honey" swearing, as a harmless transgression, serves as a coming-of-age exercise that allows kids to practice partitioning taboo violation to particular social contextshttps://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1180288964093206528 …
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I don't care about people cussing around kids, modulo level of depravity, but people who cuss *at* their kids on a regular basis are scum this is also a class thing of course
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Just say it: Lower class people are scum. That's implied by your lemma, and it's not even fully wrong.
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I don't believe that lower-class people are scum, though.
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
Me either. But you've painted yourself 2/3 into a corner and I'm curious to see you paint yourself out!
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I believe character and class are positively correlated.
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Replying to @Spivonomist @sonyasupposedly
Monsters can have class, though. (I am also a monster)
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