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A disruptive passenger on an American Airlines flight had to be escorted off the plane after yelling antisemitic slurs and causing a 30-minute delay after engaging in a physical altercation with other flyers.A man aboard American Airlines Flight 2506, set to fly from Tampa International Airport to Philadelphia, USA, ended up being put in a headlock on Tuesday (March 19).Causing a half-hour delay, the man kept on yelling “ki*e” at a flight attendant, which is an extremely offensive word for a Jewish person, according to…

By Harmeet Kaur | CNN  A British film industry group has raised the age rating for the beloved children’s classic “Mary Poppins” over discriminatory language. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), which regulates films and video content in the country, changed the rating of the 1964 Disney musical last week from U (Universal) to PG (Parental Guidance) because it features a racial slur once used by White Europeans to refer to the native peoples of southern Africa. “Mary Poppins (1964) includes two uses of the…

For years, Native American residents in Fresno County have campaigned to remove the word “squaw” from the name of an unincorporated town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.The word, many Native Americans say, has been used as a slur and insult against Native women, part of a broader perpetuation of violence against them. In 2022, organizers scored a victory when the U.S. Department of the Interior, which sought to remove the “S-word” from federal lands, re-designated the town as Yokuts Valley for federal use. That…

Morgan Wallen has apologized again after being caught on camera using a racist slur in 2021. The “Last Night” artist gave his first interview in two years for a story published Wednesday in Billboard magazine in which he discussed his rise and fall and rise again in the music industry over the last few years and all the mistakes he’s made along the way.The 30-year-old singer first courted controversy in 2020 when his scheduled “Saturday Night Live” performance was canceled after clips surfaced on social media showing him…

Laura Scott’s poetry is clear, illuminating yet not uncomplicated: there is a mystery at its edges, a recognition of how life slips away, unbiddable, non-compliant. In Email – involving two rooms with a view – the challenge in responding to the email that makes up the first half of the poem encompasses, one guesses, a greater and unexplored difficulty beyond how the leaves or branches or sky are behaving. The poem’s question “So how do I reply?” underpins much of her writing, a chastening self-doubt that contributes to…

Is it ever OK to use an ethnic, religious or racial slur in the course of making contemporary art?That depends.Recently, I settled in for Season 2 of “The Bear,” Christopher Storer’s absolutely riveting show about a fictional chef named Carmy Berzatto, played by Jeremy Allen White, who is struggling to turn his late brother’s Chicago sandwich shop into the kind of establishment that befits his talents as a James Beard Award-winning chef. Opinion Columnist Robin Abcarian I adore this show,…

Twitter owner Elon Musk is still making big decisions on the social media platform, even if he’s no longer CEO. Overnight, Musk decreed that the words “cis” and “cisgender,” denoting the alignment of a person’s birth sex and their gender identity,were now considered slurs on Twitter and that users who engaged in “harassment” with these words would face consequences.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechMusk’s revealed Twitter’s new policy in a tweet, his preferred method of communication, shortly after midnight on…

KSI has issued an apology after making a racist slur in a recent YouTube video. The rapper, boxer, gamer and Youtube personality – whose real name is Olajide William Olatunji – made the comment in a video with his YouTube group, The Sidemen, and has now said that will he take a break from social media. The footage saw him and his group play a challenge based on the Channel 4 show Countdown, where they tried to create words from randomly assorted letters. However, the video received backlash from viewers after KSI created…

Veteran Hollywood star Whoopi Goldberg issued an apology for using an ethnic slur toward the Romani people on The View. The co-host made the offensive slur while discussing former US president Donald Trump’s loss of the 2020 presidential election on the air in the March 15 episode. In her apology video which was shared on Twitter, Goldberg said, “You know, when you’re a certain age, you use words that you know from when you’re a kid or you remember saying, and that’s what I did today,…

An NBA player who was effectively ousted from the league after saying an antisemitic slur on a gaming livestream has signed a new contract with the Milwaukee Bucks.Meyers Leonard was suspended and fined by the Miami Heat after uttering the slur during a Call of Duty: Warzone stream in March 2021. After serving the week-long suspension, Leonard was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder and waived. Leonard has since reportedly met with several Jewish organizations "on a frequent basis" in an attempt to make…