The gradual coarsening of public discourse has served a great purpose.
When we hear Limbaugh and others rail against "politically correct" speech there is a real reason behind it. I actually heard Limbaugh say one day that he wanted the right to call these 'people' names because they deserved to be called names.
Fascism can't survive unless bullying is acceptable. The abuse of racial and political minorities in 1920s and 1930s Germany didn't start with gas chambers. First there were insults that grew ever bolder. This escalated into violence. Witness todays political vitriol.
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