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«Big Brother Vip 6» and the impunity of words

Detaching at all costs the meaning of words from the intention with which they are pronounced is becoming a mechanism that is not only simplistic, but also dangerous, an alibi for any accusation against the so-called “politically correct” which, by now, seems an unnameable entity, a severe god ready to strike us at any moment to punish our neglect. The first to clear this decommissioning on television were Pio and Amedeo, which in their program Happy evening explained that words like “ricc ** ion” or “neg * o” can be pronounced as long as they are used without the intention of offending, but to entertainment, adding that the recipients of those words should have a big laugh to weaken and weaken them, because, if the words have the power to hurt us, it is also a bit ‘our fault that we give them too much weight.

The bitter truth, however, is that words have a weight, and denying it means admitting that we are not evolved and that we use language no longer to carry meaning, but only to allow air to filter from the esophagus.

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In one of his most memorable interventions, Andrea Camilleri spoke precisely of the underestimation of the meaning of the words that people use as if they were simple interlayers: «We are losing the measure, the weight, the value of the word. Words are stones, they can be bullets“. Here, of bullets, in just four days of Big Brother Vip, some have flown. Katia Ricciarelli, for example, struck by how flashy her shirt was, he told Alex Belli that he looked like “a rich man,” and no one said anything. During the episode broadcast on Canale 5 on Friday 17 September, Alfonso Signorini chose not only not to touch the subject, but also to increase the dose of the politically correct discourse by explaining that, if we listened to all the bells and all the people who hear offended for one reason or another, we could no longer say anything. That, even here, the intention must be what counts. In an interview with I smiled granted before the start of the program, Signorini said: «There is a need to be more flexible towards politically incorrect. I didn’t like being censors of certain behaviors, it seemed anachronistic to me. Now each case will be evaluated on the principle that it is not the word that offends, but the intention. It does not mean “free all”, but if a word in the context is not offensive, it should not be stigmatized. The blasphemies, however, will always be punished ».

Leaving aside the fact that so many people use blasphemies as an interlayer for cultural construct and, if we really had to nitpick, even here we should, if anything, dwell on the intention (right?), One wonders: why evaluate expulsion or at least a warning against a competitor for saying “richness”, a word that is unjustifiable in any public and social context, should it be “anachronistic”? We are sure that this constant reference to “politically correct” has not become an excuse to keep as many tenants as possible in the Casa del Big Brother Vip why, if all the words were counted, would the house become empty? It is too convenient to hide behind the excuse of intentions: it is more difficult to make the audience understand at home than saying “rich” on television is as serious as uttering a blasphemy. That word represents a bullet to all the kids who have heard it said all their lives and who have been forced to swallow it as bitter medicine because it was the only way to survive: to minimize it means to step on their pain and admit the defeat. Something that, in 2021, is no longer admissible.

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