Word: offending
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...They said that it was a 'first time meeting you gift,'" Peters said. "I didn't know if it was a tradition in their culture and didn't want to offend them so I took it. I thought it was a gift, not an attempted bribe...
...this is small-scale stereotyping. If I really wanted to offend Harvard Asians, I might sit down and write an article in which I was, well, a tad critical of the Asian community. For instance, I might suggest that there was, let's say, a slight trend toward ethnic self-segregation, or a slight proclivity for the sciences over the humanities among Asian-Americans. And I might, if I were so inclined (not that anyone would be), get downright nasty and suggest that a large chunk of these self-segregated, math-and-science types are self-absorbed, clannish and downright...
...this is all pretty fantastic, I admit. It's hard to imagine anyone writing such a thing, since it would obviously offend some people, and would therefore be wrong. Very wrong. So wrong, in fact, that the publication that printed such offensive dreck could hardly apologize fast enough for its terrible...
...third (conservative). Bush is losing his touch with the middling third. The left third and the right third operate from principle, and are stable in their allegiances. The middle third may change loyalties, blown this way or that by sometimes fatuous notions of decorum. If Bush continues to offend the middle's sense of the American story, he is headed for disaster in less than 18 months...
...people have the right to say what they think, even if other people don't like it. Even if it is--gasp--politically incorrect. In our effort to make everybody think nice things about everybody else, we often forget the paramount importance of allowing people to voice opinions that offend us. The fact that we do so is perhaps the greatest threat to free speech in America today. This threat is far more pernicious than any government repression of free expression. When government treads on the First Amendment, society rises to the defense. But who will defend the the Bill...