{"id":10571,"date":"2010-09-14T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/thanks-for-your-feedback-on-minnposts-comment\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:02:19","slug":"thanks-for-your-feedback-on-minnposts-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/thanks-for-your-feedback-on-minnposts-comment\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks for your feedback on MinnPost\u2019s comment policy. Your email was forwarded to me because I oversee our group of volunteer monitors.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve raised an interesting point \u2013 one that others have raised as well \u2014 but you\u2019ve also raised a very complicated issue.<\/p>\n

This whole area of \u201coffensive sexual terms\u201d is a very deep quagmire for media sites everywhere.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that the term generally is meant as a putdown of Tea Party followers and philosophy.<\/p>\n

But its other meaning as a sexual term is extremely problematic.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because all sorts of \u201coffensive\u201d words have this problem. One of the most common is the prevalence of the term \u201csuck,\u201d which many newspapers several years back routinely banned \u2013 or severely limited \u2013 because of its connotations. In recent years, however, most media allow the word to be used quite freely. <\/p>\n

Two other examples \u2013 both all the way back to Watergate days \u2013 come to mind in terms of increased casual use\u00a0: \u201clet it all hang out\u201d and \u201cDeep Throat.\u201d The list goes on.<\/p>\n

In my view, such usages fall under the concept of English as a \u201cliving language\u201d that is constantly evolving beyond original meanings. <\/p>\n

This is true, as well, for non-sexual terms. My favorite example is the word \u201cvisionary,\u201d which has grown beyond the negative dictionary definition of a person with \u201cimpractical ideas\u201d to now also mean the opposite \u2014 \u201ca person of strong and creative imaginative power and, often, the ability to inspire others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, thanks for your input. We\u2019ll keep talking about standards here and look for ways to address issues like this \u2013 but it isn\u2019t easy finding a mid-course.<\/p>\n

– Don<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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An e-mail response written by MinnPost news editor Don Effenberger<\/a>, responding to a reader who claimed allowing comments<\/a> with the words \u201cTea Bagger\u201d violates our policy because it is an \u201coffensive sexual term.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the MinnPost.com Comment Policy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(via minnpost<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Today in Things We Love.<\/p>\n

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Thanks for your feedback on MinnPost\u2019s comment policy. Your email was forwarded to me because I oversee our group of volunteer monitors. You\u2019ve raised an interesting point \u2013 one that others have raised as well \u2014 but you\u2019ve also raised a very complicated issue. This whole area of \u201coffensive sexual terms\u201d is a very deep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1093],"class_list":["post-10571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-minnpost","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}