original sin

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Nothing will ever undo the original sin, and devoting your life to ruining someone else’s is a loss for both of you.

From Los Angeles Times

The projects never were built, but many Latinos considered the destruction of the neighborhoods and removal of the residents as something of the Dodgers’ original sin and vowed never to set foot inside Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times

“Parade” understands that America’s original sin — slavery and the economic apparatus that sanctioned the dehumanization of groups deemed as “other” — can’t be divorced from Leo’s story.

From Los Angeles Times

This soul-gnawing anxiety is not original sin in the Christian sense, even if it functions in much the same way.

From Salon

Times Festival of Books, ‘Wicked’ director Jon M. Chu said the entertainment industry moved on too quickly from generative AI’s ‘original sin’ of gathering training data.

From Los Angeles Times