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except that we continue to perform the relation and in so doing we legitimate the claim that there is a relation.
personally, the freedom to use speech is an actual right: the "freedom" to not hear things is a negative right. i dont see them as being on the same level, so i dont see them in a kind of classic liberal dilemma kinda conflict.
you could redirect this onto a discussion of "community standards" in response, but we'd have to know something about fort collins, the usual "town/gown" conflicts, how they play out, etc. to do it in more than a hand-waving way.
i dont know anything about fort collins co. except that the atomic clock is there and so, apparently, is colorado state.
btw:
i was exploring options for not using that bad word by way of asterisk substitutions. here is a little array:
f***
*u**
**c*
***k
now, if you want to avoid the term but still reference it, i would think that using another letter than the first would be better. but which one? maybe switch em each time. keep the modest reader guessing.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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