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Columbia Missourian

Student reminds me: No room for insensitivity in newspapers

By JULIA WILLIAMS
October 22, 2007 | 6:19 p.m. CDT

Are we allowed to be insensitive to the “insensitives”?

Is it ever appropriate to “poke” the “inept people”? Perhaps it is more appropriate to say to the “insensitive/inepts” something like: “Your statement (phrased as it is) in today’s social climate is a form of verbal harassment to some individuals in this country/state/city/other.”

We can’t go around “poking” the “inepts.” Who says they are inept, anyway? Whose definition of humanity is so accurate as to include anyone in such a category?

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Bonne chance!