Word: argumentative
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...print all advertising submitted. It is entitled to its own judgment on the suitability of the ad for its audience. But in this case the judgment appears to have been that the audience was too tender to deal with what to many would have been an offensive political argument. We think that notion is false to the ideals of The Crimson and of free speech. If Harvard students cannot stand hearing an unpopular political argument, we are in a bad way. But we are utterly confident that they are capable of doing...
...memo laid out a detailed argument about why the World Bank should encourage the export of toxic waste to the Third World, acquiring the nickname the "Toxic Waste Memo...
...borrow Andrew Sullivan's argument, the institution of marriage is utterly uninterested in the question of morality or character. Death-row criminals, immigrants held for deportation, the mentally-retarded, dead-beat fathers, even the "rapists" with whom Sachs compares homosexuals all have a legal right to marry in this country. Sachs is right to note that there is not a national consensus on homosexual rights. But morality, as the issue of same-sex marriage shows, is not the starting-point for such a debate...
...that BGLT (bisexual, gay, lesbian or transgendered) persons answer to the moral "prescreening" detailed in the column, it seems apropos to consider the nature of and right to demand this scrutiny. Sachs cites the issue of scriptural texts on the subject, and notes that regardless of perceived validity these arguments deserve to be engaged. However, the nature of this argument may, if not preclude a meaningful response, at least silence an appropriate one. To some individuals, the lexicography of Paul is not a moral concern that demands reply, just as to some individuals religious prescriptions against wearing polyester-cotton blend...
...Crimson does not shy away from publishing material that is controversial or that some may find offensive. The position taken by Fong regarding self-segregation was a legitimate one. However, The Crimson has standards of argument that it applies to any opinion piece. In making unsupported generalizations, this piece did not meet those standards. Furthermore, while the standards do not change depending on the position taken in an opinion piece, The Crimson should have been more rigorous in their application on an issue known to be sensitive...