I don’t really remember a time when Frink was ever a dick to someone after they shared a personal story about why they don’t appreciate certain words or references uttered in their presence.
Freckles wasn’t “sharing a story”. He was ghoulishly exploiting a remote personal tragedy and using as a weapon to shut down rational discourse by painting all opposing positions and attitudes as “beyond the emotional pale.” And he didn’t respond to the (entirely innocuous use of a colorful and applicable) word with a gentle request that people conform their language to the dainty sensibilities of godly and virtuous maidens. No, instead he immediately lashed out by upping the ante of coarse language to the supermax, inflated by a repulsive air of vulgar self-righteousness and infantile petulance, confident that his flailing outburst would be the last word on the subject because----what? Bad things have only happened to him?
Anyway, it is a tried and tested techniques of all ideological factions, but that doesn’t make it admirable or even decent. It’s a crass manipulative trick, and I ain’t fallin’ for it.