Word: slurs
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...misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslims, their traditions and their faith, and the prejudice against Muslims that these misconceptions and stereotypes lead to. Gorin’s unjustified accusation against the Prophet serve only to further such misconceptions. He owes an apology to the Muslims in the community for his slur upon their faith. He also owes an apology to the Harvard community for propagating misleading information that only serves to credit distrust between Muslims and non-Muslims here and in the rest of the world...
...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 reveals greater malice...
...said he sent it after Simpson, a member of the Black Law Students Association, filed a complaint with the administration regarding a post on an HLS course website, in which classmate Kiwi A. Camara used the racial slur...
Camara had used the racial slur “nig” in a posted course outline...
...shared her bed; now he sees a way he can help Rita and, always more important, himself. She's in danger of losing her job because she said no to one of J.J.'s rivals, Leo Bartha. Sidney needs a third columnist, Otis Elwell (David White), to print the slur about Dallas, thus currying J.J.'s favor. So when Elwell also promises to get the cigarette girl her job back, Sidney pimps Rita to him. The three of them wind up in Sidney's office, with Elwell uttering the oldest line in his little black book: "Don't I know...