Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he had gone too far, he stood by Goodin's memo. On Monday he called it "no big deal" and "factually accurate." Like the police captain in Casablanca who was shocked that gambling was going on, Atwater professed astonishment that anyone could interpret the memo as a slur on Foley. Other Republicans who understood the memo's unmistakable meaning dissociated themselves, from George Bush on down. Even Congressman Vin Weber, a close friend of Gingrich's, called the memo an "abomination," pointing out that this had nothing to do with enforcing tough ethical standards and everything to do with...
Then I remembered why I went to Harvard. I do not deny that racism and homophobia exist on this campus. But there is a difference. Here, intolerance is intolerable. A racial slur in a house common room at Harvard would draw instant condemnation. At Duke, I saw racist, sexist and homophobic sentiments accepted--and even encouraged--in fraternities...
...have lived in a racially-mixed neighborhood since 1973. By fourth grade, several of my closest friends were Black. Almost every week, I heard a racial slur in high school, with other students invariably joking about the appearance or the alleged "stupidity" of Blacks. When and if the headmaster found out about such incidents, he would give us a lecture about how this sort of slur was a denial of human dignity. But few of my classmates paid any attention...
There is nothing wrong with such a calculation. Appeasement from lack of will is a disgrace. But appeasement from lack of power is mere prudence. It is no slur on the President of Costa Rica to suggest that he is pursuing his nation's interest. What is curious is the idea widespread in Congress that it is illegitimate, a breach of good neighborliness, for the U.S. to do the same...
...letter, Houck said he was "both shockedand saddened that what was intended as goodcamraderie was interpreted as a racial slur." Hesaid he had rubbed Love's hair out of "kinship"with him and referred to it as "ear-to-earcarpeting" because his aunt had referred to shorthair that way ever since he was a child...