This month's frenzy over the racially
offensive name of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's hunting camp amused me.
In 2012, Mi» kmaq lawyer, activist and professor Pamela Palmater spoke out against
offensive names of menu items at the Holy Chuck Restaurant.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, «27 percent
of Internet users have been called
offensive names.»
According to a study by the Pew Research Center, «60 percent
of internet users said they had witnessed someone being called
offensive names.»
In her suit, Wolfe alleged that Tinder's other co-founder and CMO, Justin Mateen, called her a sexually
offensive name at a company event and in the presence
of Rad.
He's the guy that lent his
name to the
offensive act
of scam and robbery upon the innocent.
You can try to
name a Planned Parenthood clinic after your client or pay D - list celebrities to say
offensive things about themselves to get all sorts
of publicity that promotes your book (OK, those stunts were mine).
let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor de-fame nor be sa - rca - stic to each other, nor call each other by (
offensive) nicknames: Ill - seeming is a
name connoting wi - cke - dness, (to be used
of one) after he has believed: And those who do not de-si-st are (Indeed) doing wrong.
Third, if using an
offensive screen
name directed at a group
of people who believe in faith and family, and differ their beliefs from yours is bigotted.
About one out
of five Muslim Americans say they've been called
offensive names in the past year, and about the same number say they've been singled out by airport security.
Perhaps if the Muslim community was to call this building by a
name other than that
of the city in Spain that the Muslims conqured, it might not be so
offensive.
You do not represent America and personally I find your use
of the
name offensive.
Unfortunately, contemporary culture presents us — all too insistently — with issues which require a determined biblical and theological response: the continuation
of the abortion regime; the intensifying pressure to acknowledge the legitimacy
of same - sex «marriage»; the attacks on the religious liberty
of Christians, forcing them to support practices
offensive to their faith; and, most recently, «assisted suicide» now masquerading under the
name «the right to die with dignity.»
This is a mockery
of taking the Lord's
name in vain and highly
offensive to Christians.»
He is clearly no longer able to express himself without saying the grossest and most
offensive calumnies in the
name of God.
The
name of Jesus is
offensive to you because you are angry at God.
Cultural aversion to those
of other races, whether in the form
of depreciating their ability or in more
offensive matters
of name calling and the attaching
of uncomplimentary labels, eventuates from the common tendency to commit the fallacy
of hasty generalization.
what dumb politician / preacher like Fernado Cabrera fails to understand ALL THE TIME is how
offensive it is for those victims» families that do not worship his god to be forced to hear his prayers, his words «in the
name of god» when the very people who flew those jet liners into the WTC / Pentagon did so purely «in the
name of god» as well.
If the word «subliminal» is
offensive to any
of you, as smelling too much
of psychical research or other aberrations, call it by any other
name you please, to distinguish it from the level
of full sunlit consciousness.
Michigan
offensive guard commit Michael Onwenu was
named one
of the top 5 lineman at this past weeks The Opening event...
«Without
naming names, «writes Courson, «I can state unequivocally that during my time inPittsburgh 75 percent
of the Steeler
offensive line took anabolic - androgenicsteroids at one time or another....
Florida's
offensive woes are well - documented, and the Gators» plight is the flip side
of the other three squads»: they have wins, but look bad; Boise State (best win: Fresno State), Oregon State (best win: UCLA in Week 4), and Florida State (best win: Clemson) all have little to recommend them beyond brand
name and play against overmatched teams.
On occasion, the Patriots have been devastating, but they have never overcome their early problems, which all started with an agent
named Howard Slusher and two
of his clients,
offensive linemen John Hannah and Leon Gray, who walked off their jobs for a few weeks.
Marcus Wright SAN ANTONIO > Football Marcus, a senior running back at Reagan High, rushed for a city - record 3,374 yards and scored 45 touchdowns, was
named the Texas Class 5A
offensive player
of the year and was selected to the U.S. Army All - American Bowl.
Durkin has extensive experience under both
of the marquee coaching
names in the Big Ten East, and he has put together a fascinating staff, with a layer
of seasoned hands (former Virginia head coach Mike London, former Ball State head coach Pete Lembo, former Stanford assistant Andy Buh, 35 - year
offensive line coach Dave Borbely) and a layer
of young - and - hungries.
Although most football fans know the importance
of offensive line play, no lineman has ever been
named Offensive Rookie
of the Year.
Further, while you've said that you think the
name is
offensive, you haven't demonstrated to the audience that 1) Native Americans are offended and 2) that there is an impact to the use
of Native American mascots other than the annoyance or offense
of Native Americans.
Perhaps even more
offensive than the intransigence
of the organization over the set - in - stone rule that was implemented in 2015 was the MIAA declining to call Nash by her
name, instead citing «Lunenberg's female golfer.»
BRIANA PEREZ Alhambra - Martinez — Softball — Senior Perez was
named the Bay Area News Group's East Bay Player
of the Year after another ridiculous
offensive campaign for the Bulldogs.
In producing one
of the best
offensive seasons in Celtics» franchise history, Thomas was
named second - team All - NBA.
He joined Jones» staff directly out
of college and was
named offensive coordinator before he turned 27.
Sorry I'm unimpressed by yet another article about our team's supposedly
offensive name, in spite
of all empirical evidence suggesting the only people offended are non-native Americans who want to tell native Americans they should be offended.
RB Chris Evans (
offensive), LB Mike McCray (defensive), Erik Magnuson (
offensive lineman) and Brandon Watson (special teams) were
named the Players
of the Game at their respective positions.
The
offensive 11, which has a lot
of speed and can move the ball almost as well as the starters, he
named the Go team.
Haskins, from Eureka, Mo., is the bigger (6 - 1, 202)
of the two 3 - star prospects and is coming off a senior season in which he was
named the
offensive player
of the year in Missouri's Class 6A after rushing for more than 2,100 yards and scoring 25 touchdowns.
A: The two running backs in the 2018 class aren't the biggest
names on the recruiting boards but they are a couple
of backs who should complement each other and do well in Michigan's
offensive scheme that emphasizes a power running game.
HOOVER, Ala. — Myles Garrett has seen his share
of standout
offensive tackles in the SEC the last two years — LSU's La'el Collins, Ole Miss» Laremy Tunsil and Alabama's Cam Robinson, to
name three — but the best pass protector the Texas A&M star h...
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Fairly recently, Beco baby carriers renamed a couple
of their carriers after they had been released, due to being made aware that their
names could be
offensive to some people.
There is nothing worse than, after the childbirth and filling out all that paperwork, finding out that the
name chosen for the child actually has an
offensive meaning in another country, which can cause rejection and even be the target
of jokes by other people towards the son or daughter.
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Mr. Schneiderman, for his part, claimed Mr. Havemeyer had used the
names of his running mates as a way to gain signatures, and also that he had used a «deeply
offensive» phrase in speaking to the media.
In a lawsuit over his administration's effort to shut down a vendor at Saratoga Race Course whose
name — Wandering Dago — some found
offensive, one
of the governor's own aides testified that he was «aghast» to learn emails relevant to the case had been purged.
In response to separate allegations
of political bias in its autocomplete algorithm, Google wrote in a June blog post that it designed its autocomplete algorithm to avoid completing searches for personal
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name should be,
of course, not
offensive and should not aim to lead to any financial or political advantages.
According to the survey, 62 %
of men felt that immature
names were a turn - off, while 81 %
of women felt
offensive names were a turn off.
An Ohio State University student has apologized for
offensive comments she made about Black women in a video some people — including members Consistently
named one
of the top Universities in TN and the South, CBU is your home.
We're promised that the production MissionL, which will get a more normal
name, will be the start
of a Skoda «model
offensive» that will see the brand launching a new car every six months or so for the next few years.