Word: inferiorated
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This summer, Microsoft played chicken with the Justice Department when it announced plans to incorporate a link between its proprietary network system and the much-touted (and honestly, inferior-to-Macintosh) Windows 95. This link took the form of a ubiquitous icon on the desktop, which would encourage users of Windows 95 to gain immediate and easy access to the Microsoft Network (MSN). Since MSN was new to the internet provider market, it would be at a decided advantage in gaining new subscribers. More than 80 percent of the world's computers run Microsoft Windows and almost all of them...
...when the world it sees is literally dark, white America recoils, or as the Nebraska woman said, it retreats to stereotypes. Frantz Fanon explained this phenomenon as a response to an image of the negative; blacks are automatically deemed bad (inferior, dangerous) by being the opposite of whites. African Americans cannot hide their color the way whites can hide their feelings about color. The only ways they can conceal themselves are to "pass" or disappear into white culture (this is a major theme of early African-American fiction), or to develop secret forms of knowledge or communication, as slaves once...
Last year, some of the most significant campus debates took place on this page. Some writers used their editorials to allege that Blacks are genetically inferior. Others used this space to expose the Contract On America as warmed-over Reaganomics (yours truly...
...familiar scenario for Harvard--it destroyed an inferior team. From a cynical perspective, the Crimson's schedule so far has been the equivalent of taking four Gen Eds, and there's a pre-med track on the horizon...
...such sense, because on Banana Kelly there was no majority. Everybody was either a Jew, an Italian, a Pole, a Greek, a Puerto Rican or, as we said in those days, a Negro. Racial epithets were hurled around and sometimes led to fistfights. But it was not "You're inferior--I'm better.'' The fighting was more like avenging an insult to your team. Among my boyhood friends were Victor Ramirez, Walter Schwartz, Manny Garcia, Melvin Klein. The Kleins were the first family in our building to have a television set. Every Tuesday night we crowded into Mel's living...