Word: epithets
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First, there is the crucial question of intent. Camara insists his epithet was an unconscious note-taking shorthand. Scholl says he meant his e-mail as a substantive defense of free speech. Now you can, if you like, accuse Camara of harboring a personal bias and Scholl not only of phrasing his argument in a wretchedly insensitive manner but of using a word he knows to be offensive more frequently. But, if they are taken at their word, you cannot say they acted solely and consciously to offend. That more serious accusation is true only of the flyer?...
There is also the matter of how the slurs were used. The flyer used epithets to address its audience. Camara used an epithet to describe a group of people. Scholl used an epithet to refer to the epithet itself. The degree of offensiveness seems to decrease as one moves down the list...
...most recent string of events, first-year law student Kiwi A. Camara used the racial epithet “nig” in a post on a website run by HLS students...
...controversy that prompted the deans’ e-mail began when first-year law student Kiwi A. Camara used the racial epithet “nig” in a post on a website run by HLS students...
...months last winter, Phillips and friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments on the underground Falun Gong spiritual movement. Phillips even solved Beijing's dreaded puppy problem. Many Chinese eat dogs, and dog farms import the frozen sperm of St. Bernards to breed quick-growing canine roasters. Beijing officials were certain that Swiss visitors would protest at seeing their rescue...