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- Jan 15, 2019
That shit cracks me up every time when a movie gets edited for television and they do the same thing, muting out the "god" part but leaving the "damn" in. A long time ago I had the chance to ask a producer at a local station why they do that, and he explained that while "damn" was technically a curse word, it was still "socially acceptable" to say on its own, and mentioning "god" on its own was also acceptable, combining the two was considered potentially blasphemous and far more offensive to the majority Christian audiences network TV is aimed at than just the word "damn" was. That whole "taking the lord's name in vain" thing.The repeated use of ‘Ass’ is so strange to me. Like why are you censoring hat? It’s like when people type out ‘g*ddamn.’
So they cut the blasphemy and leave the swear. Kinda funny in a way. "Fine, we won't let anyone say 'god damn' but FUCK YOU THEY CAN SAY 'DAMN' ALL THEY WANT!"