Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nations are not individuals, and the moral epithet "selfishness" shouldn't be applied to both in the same way, as it too often is when America's role in foreign crises is discussed. Both the trouble in eastern Europe and our response to it provide examples of the wrong approach to the idea of "taking care of your own kind first...
another passage reads, "Significantly, themedia forms through which some conspire to traduceBlacks with racial epithets are not controlled bythe ostensibly racist white groups." The articleblames "Euro-American individuals and specialinterest groups with powerful influence in themedia" for common use of the epithet...
...disgusted and outraged by the Peninsula's advertisement and sponsorship of an event entitled: "Spade Kicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation." The terms "spade" and "Negro" used to identify African-Americans have angered and offended the Black community. "Spade" is an epithet similar to "nigger" in its derogatory denotation of African-Americans. Likewise, while the term "Negro" was historically used to describe African-Americans until the 1960s, its usage without qualification is now considered unacceptable and offensive. Furthermore, the title's assertion of the "Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation" invokes...
Counter referred to movies such a as BlazingSaddles Roots II Saturday Night Fever andThe Godfather, and he blamed the some"Euro-Americans" and "para whites" for common useof the epithet...
Discounted by the media with the two-word epithet "Governor Moonbeam," Brown was relegated to the second tier from the start. He doesn't have wellpaid publicists, speech writers or pollsters. With only seven paid people and all the rest volunteers--unheard of in a national campaign--he managed to outlast many rivals...