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Profanity: A Persecution Of Censorship

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Profanity in often a precursor for censorship. Profanity is heard in many different songs across the world. Especially in rap. However many will still ask the questioned “Why should it be censored?” Many adults say it should because it “gets into people’s minds and may cause their children minds and fear that they might get “brainwashed” by the profanity. Yet, children say that's “It’s freedom of speech.” Many agree that freedom of speech has a huge impact on this situation. A jouranslt stated that “Not only does it violate the first amendment of freedom of speech, but censoring lyrics also violates your freedom of thoughts.(Polter)”. A singer writes from their mind and emotion. Censoring lyrics takes away their feelings in the song. Despite

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