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He didn’t plan this slur, but clearly he meant it and did not care who heard it.

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Gonzalez alleged that a man approached them, “started yelling violent homophobic slurs” and “raised a gun from his lap and fired.”

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Reform's only Welsh Parliament member has been banned from the Senedd chamber for 14 days after using a racial slur to describe Chinese people.

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So while attending inferior schools was humiliating, doing so also protected us from some of the violent threats, demeaning taunts, and racial slurs that Colored people commonly faced during segregation.

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The victim said Nowden approached him out of nowhere, cursed at him and referred to him by a racial slur before plunging a blade into his chest.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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