Oooh, yes, I'm a bigot against white people despite being one myself. You got me. You saw right through my transparent ruse of thinking that "Yankee" isn't comparable to a racial slur (a racial slur chosen as the team name by a white supremacist, no less). How did you get so smart? Was magic involved?

I don't think a document drafted and signed by the landed political elite proves what you think it does.

"Racism isn't as big a deal as you think it is. It was probably just because she's an uppity nigra bitch."

I am white, and trust me, in today's world, it is actually really hard not to use racial slurs against white people.

Cagney's love interests had the sickest burns. My favorite is still Joan Blondell in "Footlight Parade" calling a woman named Mrs. Rich "Mrs. R, I mean, Mrs. B."

The Rude Pundit has a theory that none of his marriages are sustainable because all of his wives will eventually get tired of bullshitting him about how impressive it is.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WHITE PEOPLE?! BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WHITE PEOPLE?!
[repeat 81 times while masturbating to a picture of Bill O'Reilly.]

Oh, come on, now he's just making up stereotypes.

I feel like you really should have gotten over the death of your great-great-great-great-grandwhatever by now.

Other opponents of Slate's decision have pointed out that "yankee" has been used as a pejorative term.

Hey Jenny McCarthy, I'll help with your iPhone if you stop manslaughtering kids.

Not really a feminist hero, but I was pretty happy Ben Bradlee got one too. Real journalism from mainstream outlets instead of finger-wagging about the deficit: a thing at one point!

"Whatsoever you do unto the least of my brothers, you do unto me, which in this case means taking him out on the lake to whack him."

Ah, yes, Jill Stanek, the woman who thinks the scene where Michael Corleone hits Kay for having an abortion is something to be emulated. Nice catch, Evil Rose Byrne.

The "B" stands for "breakfast."

Pam Grier is the third most gorgeous woman of all time, I swear.

Which is that, Broken Harbour? I guess I have a hard time keeping track since she switches narrators from book to book.

No, I don't think that.