Sentences with phrase «racial slurs from»

Something about the campus environment predisposes students to react to seemingly negligible events (an email about Halloween costumes, rumors of exclusion from a frat party, one person hearing racial slurs from a passing driver) with shocking levels of anxiety, including a particular distress about free and therefore potentially offensive speech.

The former England U21 international is alleged to have been at the wrong end of a racial slur from the Three Lions and Chelsea captain John Terry.

Not exact matches

Shortly after Karlie Hay, from Texas, was crowned Miss Teen USA 2016 in Las Vegas on Saturday, tweets containing the racial slur surfaced from an account belonging to the 18 - year - old.

When I mentioned Waugh's story on Twitter recently, I was inundated with messages from members of the alt - right, who told me that Christianity is for «cucks» — short for cuckold, a slur they hurl against whites who don't subscribe to their racial theories.

From Sarah Palin's charge that Barack Obama «pals around with terrorists,» to supporters hoisting «NO - BAMA» signs that call Obama a «socialist» and «liar,» to boos, raised middle - fingers and even racial slurs directed at members of the media, it's getting completely out of hand, and McCain has done little to stop it.

He was very open about how he was mainly sorry he got caught, denied that's who he was (even though he literally admits to being a racist), and blamed his using of racial slurs on his area of upbringing from 50 years ago.

(Instead of, say, reacting with a more realistic amount of displeasure to the racial slurs and general bad treatment from the whole family's part.)

I've seldom seen so many racial and ethnic slurs hurled about by so many characters, heroes and villains alike (though Jan Hrebejk's Up and Down, a strikingly similar feature from the Czech Republic that was recently nominated for an Oscar, comes close).

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).

When high school students from a small, wealthy Massachusetts school district known for its excellent schools were found to have messaged each other on Facebook earlier this month using racial and homophobic slurs, school officials and law enforcement immediately stepped in.

I encountered constant disturbing and bigoted behavior, from players screaming racial slurs to mimicking sexual assault over other corpses.

From his X-ray-like body prints made with grease, to his «Spade» series of garden spades (a reclamation of the racial slur), to Pissed Off (1981), in which he urinated against a Richard Serra sculpture, Hammons combines political sentiment with powerful aesthetic statements.

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.

In addition to replacing the racial slur, Gribben changes the villain in Tom Sawyer from «Injun Joe» to «Indian Joe» and «half - breed» becomes «half - blood».

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).

In general, my educated guess is that this may well be the recycling of a «racial» slur of yesteryear in a new form — from the U.S. meaning of «Canuck» (note again: it's a term of high prestige in Canada) to a new U.S. meaning of «Canadian» in this particular context.

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?

I discourage children from using racial and ethnic slurs by helping them to understand that certain words can hurt others.

when looking in from the outside, when it may not be within the schema of your particular personality traits to take issue with a similar racial slur being aimed at your person, especially if said slur was undeserved and applied in a manner designed to effect a negative outcome regarding a business, thus financial, agreement on the recipient's part.