Word: insult
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Harvard-Radcliffe college democrats President David C. Bunker 93 said that to attribute the changes in the late 1980s to Reagan would b e "an insult to the people of Eastern Europe and Russia. They risked their lives for the freedom that we only pay lip service...
Students protesters said Fried's remarks were afurther insult to women, in addition to the parodyof Frug's work...
...phrase "acting white" has often been the insult of choice used by blacks who stayed behind against those who moved forward. Once it was supposed to invoke the image of an African American who had turned his back on his people and community. But the phrase has taken an ominous turn. Today it rejects all the iconography of white middle-class life: a good job, a nice home, conservative clothes and a college degree...
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...WANTS to be accused of driving a species to extinction. In a culture where diversity is highly valued and any adjective ending in "-centric" is an insult, someone who believes that human interests such as jobs and property rights may be more important than preserving an endangered species is likely to be branded as an "anthropocentric" enemy of biodiversity...