Word: slurs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...America as an Iraqi native, Al-Dewachi was surprised at how the West romanticized the lifestyle of the Marsh Arabs as a sort of “primitive Venice.” “In Iraq, ‘Ma’dan’ was a cultural slur, implying ignorance, etc.” he says. “In medical school, the Marshlands were described as an area of disease, full of malaria...
...still sad as we approach the bar for our tequila, which at this point is a requirement. I stumble to a group of girls and try to think of something really interesting to say, something witty, something subtle. “You guys are awesome!” I slur. Luckily, at the Hong Kong after 1 a.m., everyone is in the same state. “No, you’re awesome!,” the ringleader screeches back...
Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller was forced to apologize to Tiger Woods after cracking a racial joke. Denver Nuggets Coach Dan Issel was suspended for a racial slur against a Hispanic; Hispanic activists then campaigned to have him fired. Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., was forced to resign after his highly controversial accolades regarding the late Strom Thurmond. These are just some of the instances in which other minority groups have defied acts of racism. One writer of AsianWeek surmised, “If a white [basketball] player had, for instance, made monkey sounds to taunt a black player...
...creator David Milch whether pioneers in 1876 really swore like the Sopranos, and the former Yale instructor quotes Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century The Miller's Tale, which used the same anatomical slur that Calamity Jane does (though, in Middle English, it started with a q). Milch says most of our high-megaton profanities are centuries old, and accounts of the West "are full of the testimony of people whose sensibilities have been scandalized by the resourcefulness of the human spirit in fitting so many obscenities in the most ordinary declarative sentence." This, he says, was the point: Deadwood...
With his bullet-riddled slur plastered over the track, flow has never mattered less in hip-hop. 50’s skills don’t matter—indeed, they seem impossible to gauge—and the beat hardly needs to try. It’s a suitable metaphor for the idea that hip-hop, at least the way we know it now, has few places left to go. Maybe that’s why Tim says he’s tired—not just bored, but completely run down by the music...