Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs.
Quotes about slurs (9 Quotes)
Homophobic slurs are the most common on campuses. I would have loved to have had a gay-straight alliance, a place where I could get support for that kind of harassment.
My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words."
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.
Nothing showed up that would indicate, at least from those cases we reviewed, that racial slurs or planting of evidence was found, ... Maybe he was a racist on his own time, not on LAPD time.
If (the victim) was physically assaulted and there were any indications racial slurs were used, or that they had plotted and intended to harm him, this would constitute a hate crime.
we will have zero tolerance for cruelty, harassment, excessive teasing, discrimination, violence and intimidation. ... Derogatory comments, verbal or written, made about others will not be tolerated. Racial, religious and sexual slurs or jokes will not be condoned.
The fact that we're having this discussion speaks volumes. There have been all kinds of racial slurs, but only this one continues to have the same powerful meaning for people that it did when it was first used. If you were to call someone a 'mick' today,