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...This is a benign family show loved by people of all ages and races ... There is nothing racist about...
...speaker rather than the speech. For instance, a certain racial slur is okay for Jay-Z, but not for Michael Richards. Or, to use an example closer to home, if an individual is disliked or perceived as illiberal (and at Harvard, these two usually go hand in hand), their benign-to-mildly-offensive comments can take on new degrees of horrendousness, suddenly becoming the grounds for unprecedented public sanction. The point is that statements should be analyzed according to their merits, not by some process that licenses certain individuals to use offensive language. Or, put differently, words hurt...
...designed to combat the "rampant anti-Americanism" that Doughty Street says has taken hold in Britain, included a closing shot of the Statue of Liberty swathed in a burqa. The winning entry is based on mocked-up newscasts from earlier decades, reporting events that might have occurred without the benign influence of the U.S. A final screen flashes a selection of great American contributions to civilization: "A free Afghanistan," "Dishwasher" and "Elvis Presley." After spoofs of the ad sprouted on YouTube--"Slavery," "Nuclear Bomb" and "Vietnam War," retorted one--the original ad shot up the ranks of YouTube's most...
...reference sites in the U.S., Wikipedia is #1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category, according to Hitwise data. But as the recent drama illustrates, a body of online knowledge built by an army of 75,000 volunteer, anonymous contributors and editors is prone to anything from simple benign errors to outright information vandalism...
...more than the little slapstick gags that pepper his routines. Borat in thong underwear may be designed to get a few chuckles, but when an enraged Kazakh crowd yells “Kill the Jew-egg before it hatches!” the laughs are enormous. Unlike the more benign jokes in his routines, Borat’s anti-Semitic ones are designed to provoke...