re: "Vulgarity won't win" (BP, PostBag, December 17, 2021)
Dear editor,
Overlooking his deep historical ignorance of 2,500 years of the rich speech that has often characterized the democratic process in the agora and beyond, and his gross misunderstanding of it when he falsely claims that "vulgarities are not acceptable when you are calling for democracy and equality in society," can Vint Chavala be serious when he writes that "Vulgarities and obscenities are foreign-induced traits that will only bring about negative responses from the Thai public"?
Can Mr Chavala really believe that the Thai people were so traditionally immaculate that prior to learning natural human characteristics such as a delight in rich language, they did not use the vulgarities and obscenities that every other human culture has revelled in as part of its daily linguistic heritage? Can it be that the curse words I've learned in Thai are all foreign imports or were created after Thais learned to have a full-bodied language from foreigners? I'm no scholar of Thai, but that claim seems literally incredible.
Are Thais truly angels incarnate, as pure as the driven gods and stainless beyond natural humanity? Or might it just be that Thais are not really the inhuman prudes that Mr Chavala would paint them as?
As to what the feelings of the unknown silent majority might be, perhaps they should each be allowed an equal right to a voice to let their ideas be heard, however earthily contrary to immaculate myth?
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on December 19, 2021, under the title "No bad words here" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2234231/ev-challenges
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