Mike Domitrz explains why speakers must know their audience before choosing whether to swear. You can't eliminate all risk of triggering people, but you can match your language to what your audience expects and what feels natural to you.
audiences and my topic, triggering is a major concern. You do not want to cause harm to the audience. And here's a reality. You cannot avoid 100% the possibility of somebody being triggered. You can't avoid it. So the question is, how do I use my language? Not necessarily what are the words that I'm always using. So I'll give you an example. You could easily swear from the stage and in no way could somebody argue it's disrespectful unless you made it disrespectful, right? And so one of the things I'm known for being clean. It's one of the reasons I I get hired on my topic, I'm known as being a very clean speaker. However, I have no problem when somebody gets up on that stage and swears if it seems natural in rhythm and is appropriate with the audience. You have to know your audiences.
