Word: anti-italian
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...shouldn't persons on our campuses go to great lengths to avoid the tag "racist"? Or the tags "homophobic," "sexist," "anti-Asian," etc.? Just like I'd expect them to go to great lengths to avoid the tag "anti-Catholic," "anti-Irish," "anti-Italian" and "anti-Semitic." What is wrong with that...
Former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci was quoted as saying that the criticism demonstrated "the anti-Italian movement at Harvard." I myself have never observed such a movement, let alone participated...
...said "If we shining White Anglos knew more about the fact that Columbus was Italian, we celebrate the holiday less," then Mr. Vellucci would have had good cause to accuse people like myself of harboring anti-Italian prejudices. However, I did not. I therefore regard Mr. Vellucci's comments to The Crimson as remarkably asinine and uninformed. My interview with The Crimson contained nothing directed against Italian-Americans...
Vellucci added that attacks on Columbus aresymptomatic of "the anti-Italian movement atHarvard...
...memorable scene is a series of clips as members from each social group dump on somebody else. Mookie (Lee) hurls derogatory anti-Italian comments on the boss' son Pino (John Turturro), who insults him back with just as many racist stereotypes. Then the film cuts then to the policeman, who insults a Hispanic youth, who insults the Korean family who has recently opened up a vegetable stand on the block. The Korean man follows with his own insults about Jews. The circle of hatred, it seems, would go on endlessly, if there were any Jewish characters in the film...