actually, writer, you could have simply said: Too much importance is put on how something is said rather than what is said because of our tendency to scandalize and capitalize.
george orwell disagrees with you, marcy. would you replace "gay" with "a man with unconventional relations"?
Re: “Fight the Faux Pox”
why would anyone replace illegal immigrant with displaced foreign traveler? it's almost as cockeyed as joining the words pretend and interpret with the word to (joel, you moron, go turn the bravura into the bromide with another of your "cartoons"). and writer, you aren't a failure, but you're not terse either. i simplified and amended. you didn't really say anything after "Too much importance is put on how something is said rather than what is said"