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Originally Posted by Dave
Sorry, I have to cut this off at the pass. The argument about "middle America" being offended is utter nonsense.
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Disagree by all means, and put your view .. even say it is "utter nonsense" if that's what you think and you consider it acceptable.
However, I was referring to middle-America not in geographic terms but as in conservative middle-of-the-road America, which is why I used a hyphen; people don't live there, it's a term I used to identify a conservative strata of society. I don't believe my view requires cutting off at the pass, even if it isn't the same as yours.
Tipper Gore et al may well have led the crusade against what they considered offensive material in recordings, but they seem to have the support of many conservative Americans, and it is the latter who I was suggesting would be offended, and whose comments I have seen.
To suggest I am re-writing "American history" is imo stretching things somewhat ..
Caryl