Word: offenders
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Davis did nothing but offend the students with whom he lives and works. Social Studies concentrators are disproportionately represented in Winthrop House, and many of us are shocked and outraged that Master Davis stereotyped us in such a vicious and inaccurate fashion...
INHERENT in my coming forward in print was a kind of familial betrayal--what Richard Rodriguez might call a "sin against intimacy." Later, when I asked the controversial author about the power of writers to stir thought, he responded under his breath that "writers have only the power to offend..." I have obviously done that...
...among the junior professors still climbing the professional ladder. The "up-or-out" system demands that junior faculty members win tenure by the end of their eight-year stints or leave the University. This system encourages young academics to conform to conservative, established academic traditions in order not to offend the conservative, established academics who will vote on their tenure bids...
Furthermore, the displayer's insistence that he does not intend to offend anyone cannot be taken seriously. If he sincerely did not want to offend, he would discreetly hang the flag on his wall instead of in full public view...
...present situation introduces the discrepancy between intention and consequence. For unlike the screamer of racial epithets, the flyer of the flag says he does not intend to offend people...