Culture wars causing chaos

Should we really be so surprised at the childish behavior of our fellow students, as was reported Monday in the front page article “Student-led chants at officials draw Greenspan’s ire”? Over the past decades, we as Americans have allowed words like the f-word to become innocuous in our public discourse. Where once these words would have drawn severe castigation for those who dared speak them (for example, in the 1970s children could by law be beaten by their school teachers for uttering “hell” in many parts of the U.S.), today we allow them to be said without any fear of public retribution. And so it was really only a matter of time before the f-word entered the public sphere.\nBut we cannot allow this word to come into common use as we permitted its vulgar predecessors. We must take action now to halt the threat of this verbal sewage on our fragile culture. Those who so disrespectfully yelled “fuck you, ref” and “bullshit” at last Saturday’s game must be publicly ridiculed and personally humiliated for showing such a lack of moral fiber. Forgiving even those among these cultural terrorists who “did it, and then realized it probably wasn’t appropriate,” would be equivalent to forgiving people like Jeffery Dahmer for his crimes against humanity back in the 1990s.\nConversely, noble citizens such as Brian Bulgatz should be praised for their work in controlling and molding the student population, steering the herd toward accepting more righteous lifestyles. But in these desperate times I feel even more must be done to stem this epidemic of vulgarity. Perhaps it is finally time we as Americans follow the \nsuggestions of great 20th-century political philosophers such as Orwell and eliminate words like ass, bitch, shit, fuck, cumdumpster, etc. from our language all together. Indeed I believe this would be the only sure way to preserve our great culture.