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We can see a shift from what you might call the situational to the ontological – from what you do to what you are – in the way that offence is now parsed: I have been wilfully misconstrued; you made an offensive remark that needed to be called out; he is a bigot.
Maybe Justine from #HasJustineLandedYet, who posted the racist comments about how she wouldn't get AIDS in Africa because she's white, needed to be called out.
Mac Donald needed to be called out.
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This store needs to be called out and that's what I'm doing.
We need to be called out from the shared comforts and illusions of village life.
It has been dubbed offensive, problematic and triggering, and so anyone who employs it needs to be "called out".
"This is a view based in prejudice, based in homophobia, based in bigotry and it needs to be called out".
It's not just wrong, it's reckless and it needs to be called out, no matter how powerful the people briefing it," said one close ally.
I'm not suggesting that we should stay silent if a game like Dungeon Keeper needs to be called out on its problems.
Bullies believe they are teaching someone a lesson; they claim that their victims are, through their own actions or faults, asking for it, and that they need to be called out and corrected.
Who needs to be called out? Realizing that an airing-out session was needed, the veteran linebacker Mo Lewis and safety Victor Green, a combined 20 years of experience between them, decided to call a players-only meeting in the days after the loss to the Steelers on Dec. 9.
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