Word: racistly
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...especially Chekhov. As the Engineer he kowtows and skulks, sneers and connives, yet never lapses into the stereotype of the wily Oriental. This is a man driven to sleaziness by circumstance, a man born to command business but victimized by his race, nationality, time and place. Far from a racist act, Pryce's performance is a deep draft of humanity -- while missing none of the almost Dickensian slime...
...hand is tapping its fingers impatiently, because the critics are right about one thing: when advocates of multiculturalism adopt the haughty stance of political correctness, they quickly descend to silliness or worse. It's obnoxious, for example, to rely on university administrations to enforce P.C. standards of verbal inoffensiveness. Racist, sexist and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's -- or, excuse me, woman's -- point of view...
...mind. He apologized to many of his former enemies. He wrote to Turnipseed, seeking the Democrat's forgiveness. In a Life article, he apologized for his nasty jibes at Dukakis: "I am sorry for both statements, the first for its naked cruelty, the second because it makes me sound racist, which...
Though Atwater was not the first to use negative campaigning, he certainly took it to a new low. He raised irrelevant issues about candidates' personal lives. He played to the homophobic, racist and religious bigots that make up far too much of the populace...
...have expanded their claims far beyond the generally accepted list of black attainments. Among the most controversial assertions: that ancient Greece derived -- no, stole -- its culture from black Africa; that black Africans invented science and mathematics; that the Egypt of the pharaohs was a black culture; and that a racist white Establishment has systematically hidden these and other black achievements. The hazard of such courses is that they may instill less pride than resentment...