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PSA: National “No Name Calling Week.”
The group said it’s unsure how many schools will participate in this week’s event, but says 5,100 educators from 36 states have registered, up from 4,000 last year.
Here’s a link to the official site, if you would like to participate. There are actually organizations that study this stuff.
The real question is this… will Congress participate? (Link goes to Annenburg Public Policy report with fun graphs on how many times per session various Congresses insulted and cast aspersions on each other). Here’s an example of some of their data:
Name Calling.
This index consists of 92 insulting nouns, such as “weirdo,” “traitor,” and “crackpot.” The average number of name calling words used per session is 40 per 1,000 pages. In this Congress the Members used 36 name calling words per 1,000 pages in the first session, and 33 in the second session making both sessions just slightly more civil than average by this measure. The name-calling rate has been dropping slightly over the last three sessions (105-H2 = 44, 106-H1 = 36, 106-H2 = 33).
The session with the least name calling since 1985 was the 100 th Congress, second session, with 27 name calling words per 1,000 pages of the Congressional Record; the greatest number occurred in the 104 th Congress, first session with 79 instances.
UPDATE: If you want to buy the book that is the center of this “No Name Calling Week,” you can do so here: The Misfits, by James Howe.
UPDATE 2: If you don’t like it, the organizers will call you names!!
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