Chavez's intent with the first six words of her column was to argue that the words we use need to have a certain civility behind them when we are in a public setting. She was telling us that for the rest of her column she would be addressing the civility of certain words and when it is right to us them and when it is not.
Chavez's decides to use the word "bellicose" because politicians have been using bellicose metaphors for hundreds of years. The word bellicose literally means aggressively hostile, and people read into the meaning and take what the politicians are saying to the heart and not as them just expressing the tensions of the political world verbally.
Chavez is trying to convince the reader that yes some word are derogatory and should not be used in some cases, but sometimes they need to be used to get the point across in a stronger more impacting way. If people use the word in the right way in public the word will not be taken the wrong way. The best point would be when she talks about "Huckleberry Finn" and how they should not change the words because it changes the impact of the story on the students that read it.
I agree with Chavez that we should not keep certain words out of our language just because some people read into them and take them the wrong way as long as we say them with civility and have the right meaning behind the words we should be allowed to use them. Also if the word has more of a impact on the story or the point someone is trying to make they should be able to us it. Basically if the word has a impact it should be allowed to be used because in the future its just going to lead to ignorance and less knowledge about subjects when they deny us from using our creativity in getting a point across. People not being able to use certain words is just going to hurt everyone in the end not help.
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