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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.
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