*Title Removed for Not Being PC*

“Civility in public discourse is important,” Chavez uses these words as to state what her article is going to be about and in these words she is saying that being polite is important when speaking in public.

Chavez used bellicose in her article to introduce the paragraph about phrases that many people use. She uses bellicose to describe these because it means eager to fight, and that is important because most of these phrases are linked to “war” talk, like being “in the cross-hairs” or even “campaign,” which means a series of military battles.

Chavez is trying to convince people that people shouldn’t be upset over the words that are used, but rather they should be upset if someone uses theses words to be rude or harmful. I think the best example she uses is the words “gay” and “queer” being used, people normally only use queer to speak down to a homosexual, when in the dictionary it actually means “strange” or “odd.”

I agree with Chavez, instead of being upset over the words that are used, we should be upset over what the people using those words actually mean.