tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283968.post115775050279243275..comments2014-06-28T09:56:21.522-07:00Comments on Stray Thoughts Of Margaret McGaffey Fisk: Self-Censorship and the Reader/Listener's 50%Margaret M. Fiskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537558539259791284noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283968.post-1157759935698907422006-09-08T16:58:00.000-07:002006-09-08T16:58:00.000-07:00Oh! Good points all of them. My father (who may ...Oh! Good points all of them. My father (who may chime in that I stole his story) has this great tale about exposing his management students to the true meaning of descrimination...as in making a reasoned choice between candidates for a job. But if anyone said they were off to discriminate between the job applicants????<BR/><BR/>As far as stories set in other times, I think there's a difficultyMargaret M. Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00537558539259791284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283968.post-1157758983472458822006-09-08T16:43:00.000-07:002006-09-08T16:43:00.000-07:00Fascinating discussion. If someone consciously ch...Fascinating discussion. If someone consciously chooses a word with an inflammatory interpretation and then complains because people react as the words have come to be understood, they have a problem. We have a number of words like that, and you've chosen some of the tamer ones as an illustration. For contemporary work, one would do better just to choose the right word for the time, taking the Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805501348812702651noreply@blogger.com