This little lady is mad. I mean really upset, like how adults get when they are wronged by someone they trusted. Josie trusted Mimi. Mimi did something so inconsiderate and so unforgivable, that Josie is not talking to her anymore.
Josie explains why she’s so angry, “Because she’s saying Bad Words!”
It’s uncool to use “bad” words in front of a tiny tot, and Josie is well aware of the reprehensible nature of this deed. And she is not afraid to raise her tiny voice to let everyone know her feelings, and just possibly adding her two cents into debating the future of free speech in America.
(I’m writing this in a sarcastic way, with my tongue planted squarely in my cheek. The video is actually super family-friendly and the little girl is adorable and hilarious).
Josie’s father, Eric, uploads funny videos to Youtube. A lot of the videos involve Josie, who is clearly the comedian in the family. Josie is Eric’s bright and shining daughter with a golden sense of humor.
Eric has obviously raised her to know right from wrong. Especially, the difference between a “good” word and a “bad” word.
Even though Josie lives in a free country that affords it’s citizens the freedom of speech, she “knows it when she sees it” when it comes to bad words.
That’s just what the late supreme court justice, Potter Stewart, famously said when he was hearing a case in 1964. The expression instantly became one of the most widely known phrases in the history of the United States Supreme Court.
There is some debate about this type of reasoning. It’s called Abductive Reasoning, which seeks to find the simplest conclusion springing from an observation. This type of reasoning is usually expressed as, “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”
The argument against abductive reasoning goes like this: If Josie knows it when she sees it, does that mean Mimi sees the same thing? Do they see things the same way? Who’s right and who’s wrong? What Josie sees may not be what Mimi sees and well that’s okay. Different strokes for different folks.
But that doesn’t take away how angry Josie is about it.
Josie says Mimi used “Bad Words.” What is a bad word anyway?
I won’t list them all here, but late great comedian, George Carlin, had a funny bit where he discussed the words that you can never say on television. The famed seven words are considered highly inappropriate and unsuitable for public broadcast on United States airwaves.
Most everyone would consider these seven words, “Bad.” But, were any of these words used by Mimi, and which one upset Josie in the first place?
The late Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo declared back in the 1930s, that Freedom of Speech,
“is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.”
But is there a breaking point where if certain speech is so hateful, harmful or controversial that it should lose it’s First Amendment constitutional protection? That’s up for debate, but what is not up for debate is how upset Josie is.
Josie makes it clear how she feels,
“It’s not funny Mimi, I told you!”
Join the debate by clicking the video below. And I know we’re all wondering if this video is obscene. I’ve seen it, so I know it when I see it, and this video has none of those seven dirty words.
It’s actually quite cute what Josie thinks about the word Mimi used, because it’s not really a curse word at all. But I’ll leave it up to you to decide.
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