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epithet

noun as in nickname

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Another man accused of assaulting pro-Palestinian demonstrators and hurling racial epithets at them was also granted diversion in July.

They couldn’t have known that their post would kick off a debate about racial slurs and the rush to adopt new epithets for outgroups.

From Salon

He provoked physical fights at protests and published reams of digital nonsense against Latino politicians, once superimposing a giant sombrero on an image of Antonio Villaraigosa with the epithet, “Viva Mexico!”

First shared in a social media post on X, “Heil Hitler” as been widely denounced for its racial epithets and antisemitism.

“Support your local ICE raid,” read a sign held up by a teenage boy, which also used an epithet to describe how people should treat “foreign friends.”

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