Word: epithets
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Taking Aim at an Epithet...
...Good with the 'N' Word" [Dec. 11] disregarded the word's legacy of dehumanizing black people. The mere utterance triggers a mental videotape of hatred, violence and oppression. It's not just "mollycoddles" who oppose it. Employment discrimination based on race and color was pervasive. The epithet nigger was directed daily against black workers. Despite the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's successes in combating discrimination, this practice persists. The N word is so clearly poisonous that even nonblack employees file lawsuits when their co-workers or employers use the term against them. Some white employees charge hostility when blacks...
...brutally graphic bite into raw, dripping tapir testes, and I was caught somewhere between a grimace and a giggle. It was only a few minutes into Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto,” and never before had the epithet “ball-breath” been used quite so literally...
...contrast, nothing has been made of the fact that someone who sounds like the original heckler yelled a racial epithet back at Richards. The man said, “That was uncalled for you f—ing cracker-ass…” Why no public indignation over a black man calling a white man “cracker?” For another thing, why do I feel comfortable typing out “cracker” when I can’t bring myself to type out the n-word...
...curious phrase “San Francisco values” has become a political epithet. But what exactly does it mean? Are there actually values specific to San Fancisco...