Among other things, Cox said Hawn showed a profanity-laced video on white privilege to students and did not successfully mute out the language....
About this particular thing, who gives a rat's ass?
I expect
junior high school students to have heard swears regularly, to know about sex, to have seen violence in movies and their favorite video games they play every day. I expect
8th graders to read
The Diary of Anne Frank and to have learned about the atrocities of history, but perhaps not in completely gruesome detail. I expect
high school freshman to learn even more about the Holocaust. I expect high schoolers to read
The Scarlet Letter which at least in passing is about adultery. And
The Crucible about torture. And I expect students to learn history of enslaved people and Native Americans throughout their studies of US history but to a more mature detailed degree in later years of study.
So what is
the scale here? A Contemporary Issues course for what, high school
seniors? Where they have to become informed about the massive Reich wing insurrection at The Capitol and a police officer getting beaten by conservative crazy people? And then George Floyd with a cop's knee on his neck 'til Floyd was murdered?
The scale of profanity is negligible to non-existent.
How about the impact to kids? As a parent I do not want my child to develop into someone who swears regularly and so I would not want him exposed to a teacher in his younger years, i.e. elementary and junior high who is swearing regularly or introducing material with swears regularly. I'd not want it for him as a high school student either. However, this is art and free speech, not swearing to swear. It's a single work of art. And it's high school seniors (or other mature high schoolers).
There's no pattern of the teacher teaching a value to children's that swearing regularly is a good thing.
Cancel culture much?