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Though the connection with conspiracy theories appears to have begun with grassy-knoller (and, perhaps, mooner — the name for people who believe the moon landings were staged in Arizona), the derogatory force of -er has a long pedigree in common usage too, from mouth-breathers to knuckle-draggers.
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Aside from sexual abuse, guards at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, the state's largest women's prison, permit fights between inmates, use unneeded force and derogatory names and retaliate against inmates who complain, said Don Specter, director of the nonprofit Prison Law Office, which investigates inmate mistreatment. .
In April, Pennsylvania's state civil rights agency ruled that a high school's "Redskins" mascot was "racially derogatory," though it did not force the school to drop it. .
Police and militiamen have been manning "morality checkpoints" across Tehran, the capital, and have been publicly beating and humiliating alleged gangsters in the rougher parts of the city, who were paraded on television after being beaten up and forced to wear derogatory placards.
Fortunately, in that instance, the progressive community was able to bring out so many people against this derogatory bill, that Kavanagh was forced to shelve the legislation while Phoenix was just awarded a perfect score on HRC's Municipal Equality Index.
"I hear frequent reports that the police use excessive force, on occasion use the derogatory N-word while on duty and plant drugs on suspects.
Anyone who trains Afghan forces and "uses tough and derogatory language will get a similar reaction," he said.
"The league needs to take action, much as they did in the Marge Schott situation in Cincinnati, where they went through multiple suspensions because of her derogatory and racist remarks, and then eventually forced her to sell her franchise".
In early August, Babić refused to participate in a joint attack on Vlasenica with the Birač Partisan detachment due to the presence of "Turks" (derogatory term for Bosnian Muslims) in the Partisan force, and consequently the town was captured by the Partisans without Babić's assistance on 11 August.
Relations with Egypt immediately soured, with Nasser, still popular with the Syrian masses, issuing broadcasts denouncing the Ba'athists as "murderers" and "fascists," and representing the forces of heresy and atheism, a derogatory reference to the party's embrace of strict secularism and the numerous leadership positions held by non-Sunni Muslims.
At their recent rallies, the most prominent new hardline group, the Buddhist Strength Force (Bodu Bala Sena, BBS) have used coarse, derogatory language to describe Muslim imams and have told the Sinhalese majority not to rent property to Muslims.
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