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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “INTERchange,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, in Franklin.
When vulgarity is OK
By Kevin Fischer
Monday, Oct 29 2007, 07:40 PM
People just don’t how to behave.
We have read that hiding behind an alias, for some, is a license to be as obnoxious and rotten as possible on the Internet.
That provocative column made me recall an article on civility, or the lack thereof, from over 10 years ago that could just as well have been written last week.
And now, Paul Jacob writes that we’re a nation of potty-mouths.
“Americans have become foul-mouthed. Vulgarity, swearing, cursing . . . such talk is everywhere, and it’s getting out of hand.
Now, I’m not perfect, but I do try to keep my own such outbursts to a minimum. Besides, my mother was right: The more you rely on profanity, the more stupid you appear. When you replace the perfect word with the common vulgarity, you appear intellectually lazy, not bright enough to retrieve from memory and deliver the truly apt nouns and verbs and adjectives.”
Jacob, of course, is absolutely right.
There is, however, a “but.”
“Yet, there’s a time and place for everything. I can more than sympathize with use of profanity when the situation merits it.”
Read on…
