The vulgar goes mainstream
by Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency
May 03, 2018
2 minutes
To be vulgar once earned societal disapproval, ostracism from polite company and -- in my grandmother's era -- put a young person in danger of having his mouth washed out with soap.
Today, vulgarities are now mainstream. People speaking in a way that "would make a sailor blush" are now on primetime television and words once frowned upon in polite society are now a part of
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