words they choose to reveal his/her thoughts or ideas, just as the speaker has the choice to accept offense or not. With that said, the columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. from the Miami Herald says it best, “Language should let you say what you mean, but if what you mean is mean-spirited, we ought not diminish that by calling it simply politically incorrect” (7). Pitts implies that language is used to translate thoughts into words, but if the person’s thoughts and words are ill conceived, then don’t blame it…
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