Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That happened in 1987, and the tide of petty American litigiousness has kept on rising to new, absurd heights. This is the age of the self-tort crybaby, to whom some disappointment -- a slur, the loss of a job, an errant spouse, a foul-tasting can of beer, a slip on the supermarket floor, an unbecoming face- lift -- is sufficient occasion to claim huge monetary awards...
...feels that the perpetuation of the happy drunk leprechaun stereotype is equivalent to an ethnic slur, and therefore encourages the Harvard community to celebrate March 17th not by drinking beer, but by engaging in more culturally appropriate activities, such as reading Yeats or, perhaps, watching John Wayne physically drag a woman's body through the Irish countryside in "The Quiet Man." Now, how's that for "rich and beautiful Irish culture...
...person of Irish descent, I find this slur offensive. And I think we all should. That's what AWARE Week was all about, wasn...
...have had only one conversation with Barnicle--in front of two witnesses, who both remember it for its coolness and brevity. It did not include any discussion of "Asian women." I would never utter--or think--the kind of racist, sexist perverted slur Barnicle attributed to me. Barnicle made up the entire story, as he well knows, in order to demonstrate his point that it is easy to take a cheap shot at a public figure...
Upon discovery of the quotation, Pritchett (who, incidentally, is enrolled in Religion 34: "Modern Jewish Thought") repudiated the slur, denied any knowlege of its presence in the paper before publication and hand-delivered letters of apology to the community on behalf of the Review. He also retrieved and destroyed some 10,000 of the 13,000 copies printed...