Sentences with phrase «uncivil use»

Neighborhood rates of interpersonal conflict in 2011 were associated with increases in social disorder (noise disturbances and public intoxication), private neglect (infestation and uncivil use of private property), crime, and physical and gun violence in 2012.

Not exact matches

Certainly there is an uncivil tone to much current political language - although I urge those tempted by nostalgia to read up on the language used in 19th - century American politics.

It is uncivil here, though not perhaps in a movie by Quentin Tarantino, to use language that has to be ****'d out.

4th Circuit Unloads on Government's Use of Disrespectful and Uncivil Language in Appellate Brief

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

The step before raising it as an academic offence was to apply moral suasion, putting the concern to the author of the uncivil messages and explaining our then understanding — that the university was and is a community of scholars, and requires some basic degree of civil behaviour — that using a computer in place of paper mail did not change the situation, — that «flaming» in email, however common, was not acceptable — that one had a right to free speech, but not without bound — and that the university was one of the places where a code of behaviour was enforced, and that the action was an academic offence.

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