Deacfreak07
Ain't played nobody, PAWL!
I get the N bomb. Fully understand it.
I struggle much more with the F bomb. I think the merits for that censorship are weaker than the N bomb, but may still rise to the level that censorship is appropriate. Much like the -gga version of the N bomb, I'm less offended by the oft humorous "-git" form of the F bomb (over the standard "-got" form).
A lot of what pulls me back to the acceptability of the F bomb is it's wide-spread use on the internet in the 2000s. Things like, "OP is a bundle of sticks," etc. There's a lot of nostalgia there. I also think that the F bomb took on a much stronger secondary meaning than the N bomb did/has.
Much like Retard. I would wager that 99.9% of instances of use of the word "retard" are used to refer to people who do not have a diagnosed intellectual disability.
So, the logic there is that the word has taken on such a secondary meaning that it has eclipsed the original meaning to the point that the original meaning isn't really meaningful. With retard, we're there. With the F bomb, we're pretty close to there. With the N bomb, we're not gonna get there.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Steve Bannon.