Sentences with phrase «as racial slurs»

Twitter users called out H&M for serious oversight at best and overt racism at worst in styling a black child in the «monkey» hoodie, considering the long history of the term as a racial slur.

And the fact that he's said that to many none black fighters pretty much proves the point that he's not using it as a racial slur.

«Aaron apparently listened to me on NPR this morning and got all his delicate sensibilities out of sorts and panties bunched up over a reference I made relating to getting the raccoons out of the basement, interpreting it as a racial slur,» Paladino continued.

As soon as this backlash started to arise, Xbox was forced to apologise, with Major Nelson releasing a tweet, «Today we sent a DR4 email where a zombie roar was interpreted by many as a racial slur.

According to the Urban Dictionary, it's now «regarded by many non-Chinese as a racist derogatory term used increasingly as a racial slur to describe Caucasians in Singapore and Malaysia.»

Not exact matches

He characterizes the social climate under President Trump as «hostile,» and adds that even in Seattle, a famously progressive area of the country, he now hears the occasional racial slur on the street.

That hatred was so strong as to occasion all kinds of abuse: racial slurs, exploitive entertainment, beatings, lynchings and even bombs.

«We agree the movie as a whole promotes Christian values and a redemptive message; however, it does contain instances of street language and racial slurs against African - Americans,» Marty King, LifeWay's communications director, said in a statement to CNN.

I met a woman who, as a little girl, watched a cross burn in her front yard and endured teachers at her new school shouting racial slurs at her because the community around her was angry about integration.

I personally see the word «homosexual» as used in the Book of Discipline as akin to racial or ethnic slurs.

Thierry Henry did not like the Spaniard occupying the same spaces on the pitch as him, and there was further bad blood when Spain manager Luis Aragones tried to motivate Reyes by slamming Henry with a racial slur.

Pushed on the issue by Sky News, Miliband replied that while the comments were «a racial slur» he didn't «think of Nigel Farage as a racist himself... I've been careful of characterising him personally as a racist.»

Two volunteers for City Council candidate Kevin Kim have filed a police complaint that they were harassed last week by a group of youths, who shouted racial slurs and tossed a football at them as they campaigned along Francis Lewis Boulevard, a spokesman for Kim said.

Shocking reports claim that Schneiderman, once viewed as a champion for the «#MeToo» movement, committed various forms of abuse to four women, including striking, choking, slapping, and the use of racial slurs.

I feel that racial slurs, especially when they are disguised as straight talk, and bestiality pornography make for a fine campaign platform.

He told Sky News: «I think they were a racial slur but I don't think of Nigel Farage as a racist himself.»

Jim Rome On Showtime, Season 2, Episode 9: NFL linebacker Takeo Spikes rejects claims that Miami Dolphin Richie Incognito deserves a pass on using racial slurs as an «honorary black.»

Language: The script contains mild profanities, racial slurs and terms of deity used as expletives.

«The X-Files» is rated PG - 13 for violent gunplay and fist - fighting, as well as some vicious alien attacks, gory special effects, profanity, vulgar gags, brief female nudity and use of one racial slur.

He appropriately portrays the ballplayer as a strong, proud man who endures racial slurs only because fighting back would hurt other blacks hoping to enter professional sports.

After letting Cochrane bloviate for several minutes, using up as many racial slurs as he can manage for the Japanese, Leto's character bludgeons him with a typewriter.

Director Francis Lee, who also wrote the screenplay, lets the story unspool at a leisurely pace and he's chosen a fine lead in Josh O'Connor as the tormented Johnny, who soon meets his match in Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), who doesn't let racial slurs like «gyppo» go unanswered.

The script is peppered with infrequent sexual comments, moderate and strong profanities as well as sexual and racial slurs.

«I had students stand up in the middle of class and directly address their peers with racial slurs,» the report quoted an Ohio social studies teacher as saying.

But the parent part of the equation went unnoticed amid bigger headlines (such as teachers calling students racial epithets and slurs such as «whore» and no one doing anything about it, and that students can lose nine to 12 months of learning from one year with a grossly ineffective teacher).

• Boys who went to private religious schools were most likely to say that they had used racial slurs and insults in the past year as well as mistreated someone because he or she «belonged to a different group.»

Judging by the title's descriptions, it looks like Steve Miller Band's «The Joker» and «Take the Money and Run» will show up to allude to drug use and violence, and Dead Kennedys's «Holiday in Cambodia» will focus more on the violence part but also offer some choice expletives such as «ass» and even a racial slur.

Documented actions and interventions such as Gordon Matta - Clark's (1943 - 78) BB gun window blow out, Gianni Motti's (b. 1958) appearance at the VIP box of the French Open wearing an Abu Ghraib - style hood, and Chris Burden's (b. 1946) TV hijack, will be seen alongside works by Dan Colen (b. 1979) and Nate Lowman (b. 1979) whose hijacked landscapes have become vehicles for the slanders and libels of a malignant culture of pollution, racial slurs, and tarnished reputations.

The most complex, and affecting, of the icons at Dia is icon VIII (1962 - 3), which combines structural elements from icon VII and icon V. Flavin dedicated this work to the 1920s blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, and gave it a loaded title; the musician is identified by name and also with a racial slur, apparently intended as a comment on the dismissive treatment of groundbreaking black musicians and on other forms of lingering prejudice in these pivotal years of the Civil Rights movement.

This case confirms what should be obvious that a defamatory communication does not change its character as lies because the falsehood contains a racial slur.

He cites a reference to the word «as perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English,» and concludes:

Some activists have unfortunately used the linguistic differences between the Khartoum government and the Fur people as a slur against Baggara (pastoralist) Arabs (from which the Janjaweed come from) in the former murdering black Africans, out of some supposed racial - based animosity between the two, leading to these charges of genocide that would demand Western intervention (presumably militarily).

Recently, Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, got into hot water for using a racial slur in a video.

When the chat goes from calling them «Chinese macrominers» to «slant - eyed bastards,» as I saw on one occasion, or similar clear racial slurs... well... what more is there to say?