Word: racistly
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...would chant in unison that I was a "terrorist" or the French airport officials who detained me for over two hours (even though I was born and raised in America) because my last name sounded North African, just as a black student would be shaped by his encounters with racist police officers or a Jewish student would be shaped by anti-Jewish incidents...
...would dispute that the person who says "I dislike you because you are black" is a racist. Yet today's multiculturalists speak of "racial pride" (e.g., "I like you because you are black") and do not realize that this falls under the same intellectual category...
...champion free speech categorically only because we rely on certain background conditions to place natural limits on that expression. We are deterred from preaching hate and bigotry on the town green because we know we will be held accountable for our thoughts and our ideas. We cannot distribute racist vitriol to thousands of people in newspapers, because no newspaper would print it. Unbridled enthusiasts of freedom of speech implicitly rely on the forces of accountability or capitalism to do the dirty work of censorship for them. More free speech does not to do necessarily make us richer in freedom...
...language about jelly beans was taken from a diversity seminar. Hence, Leo surmises, Texaco's image had been unfairly tarnished by a sensationalist media. He adds, "it's hard to shed tears for Texaco," but then proceeds to drum up more pity for the corporation, excusing another racist remark as "narrow-minded but minor." His point is that "Texaco was forced to settle the case quickly for a large sum, $176 million, not on the legal merits but because of the worldwide furor of the bad transcript and the Times's awful screw...
...denying the impact of discrimination by ignoring evidence of racism and by seeking to apologize for it. He seeks to excuse yet another offensive incident at Texaco (a black woman was given a birthday cake featuring crude references to watermelon) by describing it bizarrely as "well meaning but racist...