Word: epitheted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University of Pennsylvania, sparked one of the more bizarre incidents in the annals of political correctness. Jacobowitz was reacting to the noise being made by five black sorority sisters outside his dorm room. The women summoned the campus police. And though Jacobowitz, an Orthodox Jew, explained the epithet as a translation for the Hebrew behemah, slang for "fool" or "dummy," he was charged with racial harassment under Penn's hate-speech policy and threatened with suspension. The case became a symbol of correctness run amuck, and Sheldon Hackney, outgoing president of the university (and current head of the National Endowment...
...this in a print approximation of the sonic blast that was Kinison's trademark. SOMETIMES HE'S FUNNY! We're not happy about this, but there it is. Alive or dead, in a comedy club or in hell (granted, a fine distinction), Kinison lived up to his self-appointed epithet, Leader of the Banned. For him, hell is just another tough room to work...
Paradoxically, it turns out that for all the wrong reasons, the protesters are right. The 1927 musical is racist. The problem is not the epithet "niggers" in the opening song, which was not meanly meant in the first place and which in any case has been expunged in favor of the less incendiary "colored folks." Nor is it the historically accurate portrayal of blacks as mostly compliant, if resentful, field hands and laborers. The real problem is that the show follows the wrong story. It assumes that black people are inherently less interesting than whites...
...Lillian Hellman. The playwright, who by many accounts was a world-class harridan, once told a friend in her employee's hearing, "Well, I see the little Irish girl has set out the wrong dinner plates again." Mahoney's reaction was classic. "The remark -- which amounted to an epithet -- conjured images of a feckless, carrot-topped rustic with a camel's long lashes and a blush that traveled from throat to freckled hairline, awash in a sea of plates the likes of which she had never had the privilege to be confused by before...
Harvey Keitel bulldozes this point home as Graham, Smith's old partner--a grumbling and epithet-spewing caricature of the ignorant American. In the novel, Conner explains he could no longer live as a Caucasian among Japanese because he "got tired of being a 'nigger.'" Though the film cuts this line, it would have had a strong resonance with Snipes' Smith...