blasphemy

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/17/2023
  

  Blasphemy Is Not a DEI Issue

  by Joan W. Scott

  Hamline has mistaken the vital imperative of care and respect toward members of minority communities on campus with capitulation to religious censorship, which a university cannot abide. 

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• 5/23/2021
  

  The Age of Reason and the Restless Masses: Censoring Class Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century

  by Eric Berkowitz

  The ruling classes of nineteenth century Europe were gravely concerned about the potential of mass media to help upend the class structure or incite workers to revolution. Their actions didn't seek to expunge taboo ideas, but to restrict their circulation to the elites. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/16/2020
  

  Zounds! What the Fork are Minced Oaths? And Why are We Still Fecking Using them Today?

  by Kirk Hazen

  Minced oaths have historically performed a very specific role: providing a weakened but socially acceptable form of an actual religious oath, swear or curse.