epithet

You can guess which 6-letter epithet for black people they tried to use.

I criticized his diction and argued that bitch was the wrong epithet.

I have never, ever, ever seen it used as an epithet, not once, not in all the internet flamewars I've seen.

"Dear media, please stop using a word your readers understand, instead say a racial epithet that's been used for the last 140 years.

That's essentially true but if you don't discuss the views in greater depth "racist" is just used as a conversation stopping epithet.

From the way you throw the word "hipster" around like an epithet, I already guessed you are not a Mac or Windows user...Sorry, couldn't resist.

If you live in a free country, go up to someone and call them a hateful racial epithet and suffer as your only punishment the dirty looks of others.

In this context, "dictatorship" is akin to an epithet, and using it risks short-circuiting rational discourse.

Labeling the paper with the epithet "hugely nurturist" tells nothing about the paper but everything about what you are doing.

> Labeling the paper with the epithet "hugely nurturist" tells nothing about the paper but everything about what you are doing.

This "generic Anglo-Saxon" epithet sounds like an emotional appeal.

Speaking as an American not given to hypersensitivity on this issue --- my immediate association was with the epithet.

The "talking points" the owners provide for their followers call it "socialism", and the latter, in US political culture, is an epithet like "child molester".The ugly reality this charade is designed to avoid acknowledging is that the US is ruled by what has lately been called "the one percent" - and there is nothing the majority can do about it.

I know everyone here knows Rich Hickey from Clojure, but I'm a C/C++ programmer from the '90s and I primarily know him for "Hickey functors", which were the de facto standard way of doing object-oriented callbacks in C++.Also, while I am sure they were for the time a near-optimal solution, they are f'ing gross, so "Hickey functor" is a bit of an epithet.

Virtually every use of "social justice warrior" or "SJW" I've ever encountered has been using it as a label to stick on people who do not self-identify that way, usually as a personal attack, and I can find no evidence of the existence of such a "self-proclaimed" group; doing a search, the term appears to be entirely a hostile epithet ascribed to others, not a self-proclaimed group.