Word: slurs
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...general law,” HUPD Spokesman Steven G. Catalano said. “What you’re investigating is to determine whether the offender is using the person’s sex, race, religion as a motivating factor. There are some instances when someone will say a slur during the course of a crime but that doesn’t make it necessarily a hate crime...
...Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations hopes to inject some desperately needed levity into the contentious discourse on race and ethnic identity. To that end, on the evening of April 11, it launched its second annual film festival under the title, “Whose Slur Is It Anyway? Defining Ethnic Identity Through Humor and Satire...
...weigh-in, Paret, a Cuban immigrant, called Griffith "maricn"--a Spanish slur for homosexual and an allusion to rumors that Griffith was gay. Griffith does not reveal his sexual orientation, but, he says calmly, "I wasn't nobody's faggot." In the 12th round, he trapped Paret in the corner and unleashed a brutal flurry of uppercuts to his head. Norman Mailer likened the barrage to "a baseball bat demolishing a pumpkin." Paret died 10 days later...
...them hurrying by you down Plympton Street, conservative ties fluttering, cell phones at their ears, portfolios emblazoned with the Harvard seal tucked under their arms. They are seniors who have chosen to do recruiting, and they can be dismissed, by the dissimilarly inclined, with a hissed one-word slur: “Tool...
...discussing its special challenges with Kamoun. "He told me, 'Josée, this one's got a word that might be a bit difficult,'" she recalls. The book's narrative hinges on a misunderstanding of "spooks," which is both a term for ghosts and a 1950s racist slur for African-Americans. Sitting in her book-filled Paris apartment, Kamoun, 53, explains that she quickly thought of the word zombies, which in French can have its own derogatory double meaning. But it wasn't quite right. She was eventually forced to rely on the translator's last resort - a footnote...