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Like Chávez did in the last election, Maduro has called Capriles an oligarch and a Nazi — a particularly hurtful epithet for Capriles, whose great-grandparents were both killed in the Holocaust.
Like Chávez did in the last election, Maduro has called Capriles an oligarch and a Nazi a particularly hurtful epithet for Capriles, whose great-grandparents were both killed in the Holocaust.
If I were a resident of Streatham, Stockwell or Sydenham, I might feel extremely offended by Mr Livingstone's suggestion that the streets of my neighbourhood are full of people trading insults, and, when provoked, the standard response of a south Londoner would be a personally hurtful epithet.
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The news echoes a 2011 furore which blew up when a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn removed more than 200 "hurtful epithets".
It will have the effect, the publisher claims, of replacing "two hurtful epithets" in order to "counter the 'pre-emptive censorship' that Dr Gribben observes has caused these important works of literature to fall off curriculum lists worldwide".
But Donald Trump, who has called women "disgusting animals," "fat pigs," "slobs," "dogs" and other disrespectful and hurtful epithets, has set a tone of violence, sexism, and bullying throughout this campaign that's been spreading out in our communities, online, to our children, and into how we treat, share, and talk with each other.
Is it a more hurtful racial epithet than insults such as kike, wop, wetback, mick, chink, and gook?
NewSouth Books asserts that these epithets are "hurtful" and prevent some teachers from assigning the book.
The destruction happens more quickly if the hurled epithets are particularly hurtful, i.e., "below the belt" woundings.
There are others with whom I was previously on intimate terms who have epithets that are more hurtful.
Smith complains, "that so many have no compunction whatsoever using the hurtful and inaccurate v-word as an epithet to characterize the most defenseless among us.... Yet, it is just as demeaning to the intrinsic human dignity as racial and sexist slurs.
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