Of course, online chat rooms are known as places where some people, shielded by anonymity, let ugly remarks fly.
Rocker's ugly remarks about gays, people on welfare, people who speak foreign languages and others different from him -- and the righteousness and the outrage -- have a cost.
(It should be noted that this controversy has never really been just about the ugly remarks Sterling made to his mistress, think of this suspension as something like a Lifetime Achievement Award for hatred).
WASHINGTON — The new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, apologized to Rush Limbaugh on Monday after describing him in a television interview over the weekend as an "entertainer" who made incendiary and sometimes ugly remarks, party officials said.
In a related essay on the difference between race and ethnicity, Reed drives home the reason not everybody is expected to denounce ugly remarks made by, say, Latvian-Americans or Irish-Americans.
But Jumbo's character doesn't want her life as a performer to be a performance; she'd rather tell us what it's really like and where her struggles have led her, not to mention the ugly remarks that jealous actors and unenthusiastic audiences directed at her as she moved into her own future as an artist.
"I often get called names when I go out on the town for a beer, and the ugly remarks increased after Sept. 11," said Wallid el-Amrani, a 24-year-old student from Jordan who said he might try to move to "a less hostile country".
In recent weeks activists in Russia and the West have been discussing the bizarre behavior of the well-known Russian gay activist Nikolai Alexeyev, who had what was called a Twitter meltdown, sending out tweets attacking other activists and making ugly anti-Semitic remarks, among other strange pronouncements (including that he was quitting activism).
Hinckley went on to remark that "Ugly Americans packs a lot into 21 or 22 minutes.
