Word: inferior
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...would pay eight dollars to watch Jesus get brutally tortured for two hours or why you’d want to sit in a loud stadium and watch cars drive around in circles. They regard Middle America as fly-over country—a place full of misguided, intellectually inferior people. This failure to fully engage Middle America is what allowed John Kerry to lose what should have been an easily winnable election...
...DIED. RICHARD G. BUTLER, 86, founder of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations; in Hayden, Idaho. Butler, who developed his racist ideology after witnessing the caste system while in India during World War II, became a high priest of white hate, preaching that blacks were inferior and Jews evil. His movement spawned chapters in a dozen states and contacts around the globe but was effectively bankrupted by a $6.3 million lawsuit in 2001 filed by a woman and her son who were assaulted by Aryan Nations guards outside Butler's Idaho compound...
...Claude Rains was over the gambling at Humphrey Bogart's joint in Casablanca back in the halcyon days of American idealism [June 21]. It's obvious that what went on in Abu Ghraib and Guant?namo was not the result of the actions of a few bad apples of inferior rank but a calculated policy formed in the upper reaches of the Bush Administration. How did we sink so low? Liberals and conservatives alike shudder as they contemplate this betrayal of American values. Hal Barwood San Anselmo...
Then there's the Jefferson of the Notes on the State of Virginia, who in the time-honored fashion--"I'm no racist but ..."--proclaimed whites' superior beauty and ventured his "suspicion" that although racial intermixture improved them, blacks were intellectually inferior to whites. Although he qualified his disparaging remarks because he hadn't observed blacks in their natural state of freedom in Africa, Jefferson's presentation leaves no doubt that he, like a typical white person of the 18th century, believed in white supremacy. Consider Abigail Adams, who upon seeing Othello expressed her "disgust and horror" at the thought...
...also says she feels that people who are Taiwanese are often automatically considered inferior to the Chinese, although prejudice can often be subtle...