{"id":103313,"date":"2020-08-06T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103313"},"modified":"2020-08-06T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:17:14","slug":"bowdlerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103313","title":{"rendered":"Bowdlerism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-70138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mergansers-at-IBSP-north-4-20-2013-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mergansers-at-IBSP-north-4-20-2013-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mergansers-at-IBSP-north-4-20-2013-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mergansers-at-IBSP-north-4-20-2013-500x313.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, yeah?\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Yeah!<\/p>\n<p>You all know how everything is being altered or removed or destroyed, so as to not offend anyone, right?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called expurgation and\/or bowdlerism.<\/p>\n<p>Expurgation, also known as bowdlerization, is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work, or other type of writing of media. The term bowdlerization is a pejorative term for the practice, particularly the expurgation of lewd material from books.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account or any environment), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective, e.g., : &#8220;every edition of his letters and diaries has been bowdlerized&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Statues of Christopher Columbus have been removed from their posted places in Little Italy and other areas in Chicago.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-53530752\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-53530752<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anything that might offend someone is to be obliterated, painted over, destroyed, or removed from the sight of those who are easily offended.<\/p>\n<p>What was that part in the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution all about, anyway? Referring to the part about &#8220;freedom of speech, freedom of the press&#8221;, etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>These displays of selfishness are not attempts to get people to have better manners; most of the people I know have really good manners and don&#8217;t throw rocks or scream at other people for being alive, or push them in front of trains, or yank them around because they&#8217;re old and apparently vulnerable. Assaulting an old lady or an old man or a child just because you think you can get away with it is the act of a sociopath, and has nothing to do with any kind of constitutional freedom.\u00a0 Those are criminal acts and nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>In this example, a woman at a store was left with a broken leg after a customer screamed at her about how she was wearing her mask and knocked her down.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/irl\/staples-karen\/\">https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/irl\/staples-karen\/<\/a> \u00a0The store camera&#8217;s video is in the middle of the page.<\/p>\n<p>All by itself, it&#8217;s assault, but it also becomes a form of expurgation when someone is treated this way. There are dozens of samples of people screaming bloody murder at someone for either not wearing a mask or not wearing it the way they think it should be worn. Conform or die, basically.<\/p>\n<p>Any offending art is to be removed from the sight of the easily offended, or they&#8217;ll take it down themselves. Any books they don&#8217;t like, whether they are &#8220;The Black Stallion&#8221; or the Bible or Edna St. Vincent Millay&#8217;s poetry, are to be burned. Destroy something that offends your delicate sensibilities by setting it on fire, or pushing it in front of a train or a bus.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s really civilized, isn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;m offended that these spoiled brats are offended. And you can be offended, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, yeah?\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Yeah! You all know how everything is being altered or removed or destroyed, &hellip; <a title=\"Bowdlerism\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103313\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bowdlerism<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103314,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103313\/revisions\/103314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}