Word: apartheid
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...1980s, students from around the country, including Harvard, led a national grassroots effort to end investments in companies operating in Apartheid-era South Africa. In 2002, students again petitioned university administrators to divest from companies with business ties to Israel for its apparent violations of international law. Today, Harvard students have a unique opportunity to do something that will help defeat terrorism: urge Harvard University’s endowment to divest from companies that operate in terrorist-sponsoring states...
...could college students help bring about these sorts of desirable outcomes? The same way they helped end the injustices of apartheid in South Africa two decades ago. Dedicated students from colleges across the country demanded that their schools stop investing in companies that did business in South Africa. These students, along with the rest of the world, were rewarded for that passion. Harvard’s endowment, after sustained student and community pressure, selectively divested $160 million in companies operating in South Africa in 1986. Apartheid was consigned to the dustbin of history...
...business with terrorist-sponsoring regimes. The results can be much the same as the South Africa example. Moreover, universities have already set a precedent that they will divest to right injustices. Will university administrators, who already endorsed a selective divestment campaign against South Africa, be able to argue that apartheid was a greater evil than terrorism is today? I suspect...
This situation should outrage students regardless of political party affiliation. We are at war, and this strategy is aimed at protecting all Americans. This time around, like defeating apartheid in South Africa, college students must take a stand for a just cause...
...realize that I am entirely right about everything. This virtual self-gerrymandering promotes black-and-white thinking. (On many political blogs, if there's one thing worse than an enemy, it's an ally who's not ideologically pure enough.) Yet it also makes for a kind of happy apartheid. You know that my naive ideas will lead America to crumble like Rome, and I know that morons like you are going to get me killed by a dirty bomb, but we never need to actually say a cross word to each other. Or anything at all, for that matter...