Hate Speech Could It Hurt Analysis
Jade Richmond
Kimberly Southwick
English 702
Wednesday, April 15, y
Hate Speech: Could It Hurt? As a little girl, money was scarce. Living in in a tiny apartment poor was well known in my vocabulary. I was around children who had money and opportunity and two parents where I had no money, and just a single mom. Kids laughed when I had holes in my shoes and ripped stockings and none of the popular toys, and parents whispered when my mom couldn 't afford to rent a hall for my birthday party or a clown, or a larger cake. It hurt when others pointed it out. I felt ashamed of my small home and my clothes and the word poor, and the fact that it was a woman raising me. I would have been happy with politically correct language, but the best would have been if no one had ever pointed it out, then maybe i would not have felt so alienated growing up. The words that offended me hurt as a child …show more content…
Talking about the need for political correctness in her article “the Word Police”, Kakutani admits to needing politically correct language in order to eliminate sexism and racism, “[B]ut the methods and fervor of the self-appointed language police..[open] the movement to the scorn of conservative opponents and the mockery of cartoonists and late night television hosts” (Kakutani 329). She goes on to talk about other types of racism and how the author Ms. Maggio talks about how in everyday language the word black is used derogatorily and it should be replaces with synonyms, words such as “ostracize” for “blackball”, and “payola” for “blackmail”, and “outcast” for “black sheep”. He bemoans the “…Orwellian willingness to warp the meaning of words by placing them under a high powered idealogical lense” (Kakutani 331). He examine everything with a sarcastic tone of how while it is important, politically correct language also is diminishing itself because of too many
Kimberly Southwick
English 702
Wednesday, April 15, y
Hate Speech: Could It Hurt? As a little girl, money was scarce. Living in in a tiny apartment poor was well known in my vocabulary. I was around children who had money and opportunity and two parents where I had no money, and just a single mom. Kids laughed when I had holes in my shoes and ripped stockings and none of the popular toys, and parents whispered when my mom couldn 't afford to rent a hall for my birthday party or a clown, or a larger cake. It hurt when others pointed it out. I felt ashamed of my small home and my clothes and the word poor, and the fact that it was a woman raising me. I would have been happy with politically correct language, but the best would have been if no one had ever pointed it out, then maybe i would not have felt so alienated growing up. The words that offended me hurt as a child …show more content…
Talking about the need for political correctness in her article “the Word Police”, Kakutani admits to needing politically correct language in order to eliminate sexism and racism, “[B]ut the methods and fervor of the self-appointed language police..[open] the movement to the scorn of conservative opponents and the mockery of cartoonists and late night television hosts” (Kakutani 329). She goes on to talk about other types of racism and how the author Ms. Maggio talks about how in everyday language the word black is used derogatorily and it should be replaces with synonyms, words such as “ostracize” for “blackball”, and “payola” for “blackmail”, and “outcast” for “black sheep”. He bemoans the “…Orwellian willingness to warp the meaning of words by placing them under a high powered idealogical lense” (Kakutani 331). He examine everything with a sarcastic tone of how while it is important, politically correct language also is diminishing itself because of too many