Regional Jokes Get Pass
“We live in a society where you can lose your job for making a racist joke but where there are usually no consequences for making regional slurs.”—Althea Webb, assistant professor of education, Berea College, in The Chronicle Review, October 7, 2011.
Malcolm A. Kline
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia.
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