Italian-Americans are probably the one group left that can be targeted with ethnic insults while perpetrators remain unscathed. Media commentators who take offense at insults, real or perceived, towards other groups frequently ignore slights uttered against Italians.
In the news recently, is Chrysler and Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne. He has apologized for using an ethnic slur offensive to Italian Americans. The incident took place at Detroit's North American International Auto Show back in January. During an interview he used the term "wop" to describe a new Alfa romeo car, saying, “with all due respect to my American friends, it needs to be a wop engine.”
Being of Italian descent, Marchionne's self-deprecating digs won't raise many eyebrows. Nonetheless, Marchionne sent his apology last week to the Italian-American One Voice Coalition, which fights bias and ethnic slurs against Americans of Italian descent.
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