Yes I have, I’ve said twice now that personally I don’t agree with it. But my opinion doesn’t matter, in terms of what happened, it’s evidence of people taking language use more seriously.
Who decided what he said was inappropriate? His boss. How did his boss decide? He used the societal landscape to make a judgement. It’s not as though there’s a panel made up of people who get pissed off at stuff, we make the decisions on what to say on a daily basis. Everybody knows what’s acceptable and what isn’t. Society dictates what is acceptable, it’s a fluid system, it’s not decided by any one group or person. It usually takes something bad happening for society to phase something out, which is a bit of a shame.
I watched Harry Enfield and Chums the other night and one of the lines was “don’t be a ****, eat white bread” and shortly followed by “backs to the wall lads” when referring to a bloke with a pony tail. I remember watching that as a kid and laughing. Watching it the other night, I didn’t find it funny at all. And, lo and behold, you don’t see things like that on TV anymore. The consensus of society has shifted. People generally don’t find that sort of stuff acceptable anymore and as I’ve said before, it’s up to the individual to adapt to society, not for society to adapt to the individual.
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