Atrocity (n.) is apt to change its moral color when committed by 'our' side.
An Atrocity (n.) to the German conspirators was chiefly a 'blot on Germany's good name' that would make peace negotiations difficult — it never occurred to them it signified something more dreadful.
Atrocity (n.) can serve as a lightning rod: indignation fixes on one crime and thereby buries the far greater ones around it.
An Atrocity (n.) can be reported without being seen as one when your own side commits it; the horror and outrage are saved for the enemy's.
Blasphemy (n.) reached its height when the white man made God his partner in exploiting the Negro.
Blasphemy (n.) no longer happens — proof that the sacred has withdrawn: there is not a single divine name left that cannot be spoken in the most profane and ordinary way.
Blasphemy (n.) is imagining that any created being could disturb the order of the world — as if it had powers not received from its creator.
Blasphemy (n.) is, in an obsessional, a genuine compromise-product of two opposing currents of feeling.
Impropriety (n.) clings to every phrase that claims to hold what the divine means.
Impropriety (n.) is the soul of wit.
Impropriety (n.) is nex;t to vulgarity, the highest conceivable degree of sin.
Microaggression (n.) is a brief, often unintended remark or action that slights a member of a marginalized group.
The Microaggression (n.) is the new face of racism. The nature of racism has shifted over time from overt expressions of racial hatred and hate crimes, towards expressions of aversive racism that are more subtle, ambiguous and often unintentional.
The Microaggression (n.) is, its critics claim, problematic as an idea insofar as it is a symptom of the breakdown in civil discourse. Those things we condemn people for under the label of microaggressions used to be dismissed as simple 'well-meaning faux pas.
The Microaggression (n.) is, its critics claim, problematic as an idea insofar as it contributes to a culture of victimhood which is responsible for a society of constant and intense moral conflict as people compete for status as victims or as defenders of victims.