Word: epithetsã
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...This implication that there is something innately sinister or undesirable about Arabs, and by extension Islam (to those leveling them, the “epithets?? of “Arab” and “Muslim” are synonymous) is, unfortunately, nothing new. For all its promises of change, hope, and inclusiveness, this campaign year has been shot through with a surprisingly virulent strain of prejudice and intolerance. The combination of anti-Arabic tensions arising from our nation’s war in the Middle East and a presidential candidate with a “terrorist?...
Instead of reverting back to the same, tired rhetoric that conservatives can shove aside with the mere mention of the word “PC”—a most economical of epithets??why not call it like it is? Say Coulter is crazy. Say that no one thought her comments were appropriate, that no one takes her seriously, and, most importantly, that we don’t take her seriously...
...know from my personal experiences here how the overwhelming majority of Europeans feel great sympathy and affection for America. That’s why I’ve been so disappointed to read the columns and articles of some hardline commentators back home, who haphazardly hurl epithets??“anti-American,” “appeasers,” “dictator coddlers” and so forth—at Europeans. Describing the people who rushed to our side after Sept. 11 this way is wrong, and that sort of rhetoric flies...
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