Sentence examples for offensive representations from inspiring English sources

Our history is fraught with violence but the future of our "foreign" accents in the western world, as Andrew Fung said, isn't going anywhere and neither are the simplistic, offensive representations of them.

Apart from infringing on the intellectual property of indigenous peoples, Anderson worries about the ways that inaccurate and offensive representations "trickle" into other areas of society, where indigenous women and girls are vulnerable to violence, both on a personal and systemic level.

At the heart of the violent fury was an offensive representation of the turban.

I wonder what the reaction would be if an equally untrue, biased and offensive representation were made of another ethnic or racial group.

Last month, a petition launched on Care2 asking for people to boycott the comedy starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson because of its "offensive representation of non-binary individuals".

I used to think it would take an Indian guy with dark brown skin in a suit to be named Bill and never mention his race to humanize us to Westerners (I guess Tom Haverford from Parks and Recreation is just that), but now I think we may be coming along so fast that even an Indian guy in a turban with a pet tiger can be a non-offensive representation of us on film.

He also calls it an "ironic wink" at how some elements in Jewish pop culture have appropriated slurs as well as a fair representation of offensive views that are still current.

As Kramer pointed out in 1980, irrespective of whether Warhol's series of Jewish portraits are offensive his manner of representation, which some will call cold and unrevealing, is at least consistent with his previous work and not confined to this particular series.

Thankfully, few fictional representations are so offensive to their (reputed) models that actual violence ensues.

This expression of fandom is not only offensive, it is a pathetic and disappointing representation of the character of Cleveland.

It would be offensive to Muslims who believe that all pictorial representations of Mohammed are inherently sacrilegious, but that is by no means a universal view in Islam.