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No serious mental-health professional would render such a partisan and derogatory diagnosis.

Think of it as the Korean “no sabo”: a derogatory term for a person living outside of the motherland and thus disconnected from their culture.

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A few years later, Laws and another presenter on radio station 2UE were found guilty of breaking homosexual vilification laws for referring to a young gay couple using derogatory language.

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Lawrence Hume, a detention sergeant, was dismissed on Friday at an accelerated misconduct hearing, which also heard he used a derogatory term to describe the detainee.

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I am not saying this in a derogatory way about Owen Farrell, but Ford and George have a very different leadership style to someone like Farrell.

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