Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect.
"Despite its prevalence, 'pets' is surely a derogatory term both of the animals concerned and their human carers," the editorial claims.
No, I’m not talking about sucking up to the boss or brown-nosing or those hundreds of other derogatory terms used to describe an employee’s relationship with his or her supervisor.
Due to the reputation of turkeys being incredibly stupid, the term "Turkey" began being used as a slang, derogatory term meaning something akin to "idiot" around the early 20th century.