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...demonstrators seemed more dazed and confused than ready to mount a people power revolution, however. The coalition of 11 political parties that organized the event agreed on so little that they invited no politicians to address the rally lest any one speaker offend the others. But even the anodyne lineup of writers and pop stars wasn't enough to prevent controversy. Several crowd members shouted down performers because they thought playing music offensive to the memory of the soldiers killed in Lebanon...
...that the words nigger, bitch and ho should be banned from the radio versions of songs, labeling them "extreme curse words." Why are you focusing on only these three words? -John Kensall, TorontoBecause every time you speak to a black activist, he will tell you that these three words offend him the most. [Eliminating] these three words will alleviate a lot of the pain...
...national convention of any state that votes before Feb. 5. Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has gone further, threatening to bar all delegates of candidates who campaign in rule-breaking states. Few believe the threats. Once chosen, the candidates control the conventions, and none will want to offend key swing states like Florida and New Hampshire. So no one can say where the rush to be first will stop. Some reform ideas are on the table, including rotating first-in-the-nation honors and grouping primaries by region, but there's little political will to make them happen...
...campus are less concerned. “I haven’t been paying that much attention to the media coverage but I didn’t really see anything that I thought was particularly offensive or wrong, but I’m a very difficult person to offend,” said Weichen Zhu ‘07, a subscriber to the AAA e-mail list. “I can see more people are more sensitive to this issue than I am.” —Staff writer Doris A. Hernandez can be reached at dahernan@fas.harvard.edu...
...nappy-headed hos” of Rutgers women’s basketball, his equally egregious remarks were met with an unusual amount of public disdain and, in the end, dismissal. It remains impossible to predict which instances of insult will stop being benign to American audiences and begin to offend. Amid the furor over Imus’s own misstep, we must acknowledge that the onus of accountability extends well beyond the shoulders of one desiccated fake cowboy, brought up in a world where grime is money...