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July 27, 2022
As I have mused in many earlier posts, offensiveness is not easily defined and what makes a word [...]
June 14, 2022
I thought I’d wait until you’ve forgotten Ilya Shapiro for the second time. We last contemplated his plight [...]
February 16, 2022
On January 31, as practically everyone who scans headlines will recall, Whoopi Goldberg, the actor, comedian, and conversationalist, [...]
December 31, 2021
It’s that time of year when earnest greetings arrive on every puff of air and cloud extending heartfelt [...]
November 17, 2020
What would you do if you discovered that one of your good friends has been physically abusing his [...]
August 8, 2020
Whether or not the spring and summer of 2020 will be seen in hindsight as a Great Tipping [...]
Offense of the Month
Outrages from All Over: A Semi-Annual Compendium
Offenses of the Month, February to July
February
If You Can’t Say Something that Cannot Possibly Be Misinterpreted, Don’t
The story is as short as it is brutal. On a Monday in late February, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry, happened on a tweet depicting an American model of South Sudanese descent, Nyakim Gatwech. The tweet erroneously claimed that Ms. Gatwech was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the “darkest skin […]
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