Also in the USA, the left-wing New Alliance Party is said to have described Zionism as " Jewish corporate nationalism ", although the exact meaning of this presumed slur is not clear.

" The Conservative Party demanded an apology from Volpe, who acknowledged that his words " might have been a little intemperate " because of what he interpreted as a " racial slur ".

' Democrat Party ' is a slur, or intended to be — a handy way to express contempt.

John DeFrancis calls Zhuàng, with the " dog radical " and a tóng phonetic, an ethnic slur and describes how the People's Republic of China removed it.

In China, the term Shina has become linked with the Japanese invasion and Japanese war crimes, and has been considered a derogatory and deeply offensive ethnic slur ever since.

The Chinese term Riben Guizi is a common ethnic slur against the Japanese people ( See Anti-Japanese sentiment in China ).

The London-based newspaper Daily Graphic wrote in an article on 22 August 1898, " The avalanche of brutality which, under the name of ' Hooliganism ' ... has cast such a dire slur on the social records of South London ".

The term " Bongo " and " Congo " has been seen by many as a racial slur which tended to conjure mental imagery of African savagery.

At some point ( usually said to be during his time in the Reagan Administration ) Perle acquired the nickname " The Prince of Darkness ", which has been used both as a slur by his critics and as a joke by supporters.

One of the Hughes ' campaign leaflets has been condemned by some for claiming the election was " a straight choice " between Liberal and Labour, however this phrase is regularly used by many parties within the UK — Hughes has since apologised for what may be perceived as an inadvertent slur.

Mankind has met with several alien species, all of which are decidedly strange and non-human, from the genetically-engineered Pentapod to the vicious Kafers ( The game writers coined this name based on the German word Käfer, meaning " beetle ", not on the Afrikaans ethnic slur " kaffir ".

The word generally has no particular ethnic connotations among the Dutch, but is used as a slur amongst Surinamese to designate Hindustanis .< ref >

There has been considerable debate over whether the term " redskin " is a racial slur against Native Americans.

Like similar terms such as " carpetbagger " the word has a long history of use as a slur against southerners considered by other conservative or pro-federation Southerners to betray southern values by supporting policies considered Northern such as desegregation and racial integration.

Kenneth Chu has been used as an example of the seriousness of the slur, when he was found murdered with the word chink scratched into his car.

The National Assembly of Quebec has banned use of this slang term as a slur after its use by members of the legislature.

Unlike " bisexual until graduation " and similar pejoratives, heteroflexibility is typically considered to have a positive connotation, and is often a self-applied label, although use of the term as a " pop-culture slur " has been attested.

With titles such as " Plans for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy ," " Love and Napalm: Export USA ," and " Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan ," and by constantly associating the Kennedy assassination with a sexual or sporting event, the work has maintained controversy, especially in the United States, where some considered it a slur on the dead president's image.

While usually intended for ethnic Chinese, the slur has also been directed at other East Asians.

Doan himself has denied that he ever made the ethinic slur.

In music for two hands, it is possible to write a slur that begins in one hand and ends in the other ; this is usually done when the first hand has nothing more to play in that measure and hence there is room to draw the slur in the space which would normally have been used to draw further notes.

However, if a one-off chord results in many digits being stacked on top of each other and also has a roll symbol, it is possible to place that roll symbol above any slur or tie line to save space ( to avoid moving the slur or tie any higher than the chord has already needed to move it ).

A word now long reckoned an ethnic slur, " darkies ", that is used in the lyrics has become such an embarrassment for singers and audiences alike that at public performances words like " lordy ," " mama ," " darling ," " brothers " or " dear ones " are typically used in place of the offensive word.

Thus, in Chile, Argentina and the Canary Islands, godo was an ethnic slur used against European Spaniards, who in the early colony period often felt superior to the people born locally ( criollos ).

Other less likely explanations involve " Hogan " ( a nickname for Irish workers at the Hog Island shipyard ), a reference to the pork or " hog " meat used in hoagies, " honky sandwich " ( using a racial slur for white people seen eating them ) or " hooky sandwich " ( derived from " hookie " for truant kids seen eating them ).

Likewise the term " traitor " is used in heated political discussiontypically as a slur against political dissidents, or against officials in power who are perceived as failing to act in the best interest of their constituents.

The term is usually a slur, but may also be used self-referentially by whites to jokingly describe their origins.

) -- referring to a common slur used against Africans by Belgians, however, these words are neither in his written text nor in radio tapes of his speech.

* Mariposa, Spanish for " butterfly ", also used in Spanish profanity as a slur against gay men

The media at the time either ignored the slur or used euphemisms such as " anti-man ".

The word " gypsy " is often used to refer to travelling showmen, but it is not a phrase that they would use to refer to themselves ( the usual term is " traveller ") and in fact many would regard this as a slur.

Also, whereas Paddy is often used in a jocular context or incorporated into mournful pro-Irish sentiment ( i. e. the songs Poor Paddy On The Railway and Paddy's Lament ), the term Taig remains a slur in almost every context.

In response to the controversy, Chandler's personal assistant said " He used the word again in explaining that it was not intended by him to be a racial slur ," and called the Kernel's story " a complete and total distortion.

Generally used as an ethnic slur, the term was originally coined and applied only to Mexicans who entered Texas by crossing the Rio Grande river, which is located at the Mexican border, presumably by swimming or wading across and getting wet in the process.

" In Greece, the word Βλάχος ( Vláhos ) is often used as a slur against any supposedly uncouth or uncultured person, but literally it means nothing more than countryperson and is often used as a synonym for Χωριάτης ( Choriátis ) which simply means villager.

The word is not used as a slur however.

In the 1970s, the Government of Alberta added the term ' Newfie ' to a list of words not allowed to be used on personalised licence plates, reasoning that it was an ethnic slur and hateful.

When Doan was selected for the 2006 Olympics Canadian national men's hockey team, Canadian Liberal MP Denis Coderre wrote a letter to Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson asking to remove Doan from the team unless Doan apologized for an alleged racial slur he used on December 13, 2005 against a Francophone referee during a game against the Montreal Canadiens.

Zambo ( ) or cafuzo () are racial terms used in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires and occasionally today to identify individuals in the Americas who are of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry ( the analogous English term, considered a slur, is sambo ).

Zips ( also Siggies or Geeps ) is a slang term often used as a derogatory slur by Italian American and Sicilian American mobsters in reference to newer immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi.

Faggot, often shortened to fag, is a pejorative term and common slur used chiefly in North America against homosexual males.

It deals with the overuse of the word fag, along with its history and how it evolved from a 16th century slang meaning " old or unpleasant woman " to a homophobic slur into a general insult commonly used amongst American youth.