Word: refering
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There is also the matter of how the slurs were used. The flyer used epithets to address its audience. Camara used an epithet to describe a group of people. Scholl used an epithet to refer to the epithet itself. The degree of offensiveness seems to decrease as one moves down the list...
...greatest job of giving skin-tone specific beauty advice. I mean, it does if your skin tone is somewhere between Swedish pale pink and J-Lo bronze. I suppose if I want to learn which dark-people lipsticks or blushes to wear with a particular outfit, I could refer to the make-up artists who are dishing out advice in the dark-people magazines. And there are “special” make-up lines made especially for black people with invitingly dark shades that start somewhere around caramel and only get better from there. I use these products?...
...writing to express my utmost shock and outrage at the cartoon by Benjamin I. Rapoport ’03 (Editorial Cartoon, April 12). The cartoon, featuring a Herculean Israel surrounded by a Hydra of snakes, a clear reference to Palestinians and potentially a reference to surrounding Arab countries is a disgusting racial slur and an affront to decent journalism. If you agree that even implied racism is intolerable, it is irrelevant that the cartoon fell short of placing a Palestinian or Arab label on the snakes. To refer to Palestinians as snakes not only reflects plain bigotry but it also...
...acknowledge your letter of December 6 in regard to the hen which has made such an astounding record as a layer. The contest to which you refer was not conducted by the university. I should think that probably you could get full information in regard to the history of this hen, and also the name of her owner, by addressing the National Poultry Association...
...little more than two weeks ago, a first-year law student at Harvard Law School (HLS) sent an agressive anonymous email to a classmate who had previously attacked an HLS website for referring to blacks using the term “nigs.” Although the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) decried the use of the term, other students defended his right to refer to black people using that word or any other. Since then, flyers with anti-black and anti-Semitic statements have been anonymously distributed around the Law School...