Word: attempted
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Indeed, if depiction of evil were the best way to point out that we should avoid evil, then The Crimson should fold and attempt to turn itself into the Salient or a party newspaper for the KKK, Playboy, the Nazis and every other evil in our society that we can think of. We should assault our readers with evil; we should distribute vile propaganda free to the doorstep of every undergraduate; we should use Square Deal tactics in pushing our viciousness on every passerby in the Square...
There is no great evil in Playboy, no Satan lurking in its messages. Nor is there an attempt to purify and protect society in The Crimson's decision not to run the ad. Simply, we could not tacitly support something which was so abhorrent to the majority of Crimson editors. We would not dare to insult Blacks by running an ad suggesting that they come to work in the diamond mines in South Africa, and we will not insult the women and men on The Crimson who regarded it that seriously...
...real reply should be that the measuring of Blacks against other minorities attempts the impossible--comparisons between the experiences of minority groups in America. The tragic consequence of these baseless comparisons is that some Blacks, rather than refusing to be held up for comparison with other groups, attack the group to which they are being unfavorably compared. The attempt of certain Blacks to downplay the importance of the holocaust points up this tendency to deprecate the suffering of another minority...
...Such an attempt is inexcusable, but it is the inevitable consequence of pointless attempts to compare the suffering and experiences of minority groups--attempts that appear to be recurring, now in the case of Asian-Americans and Blacks. As academics like Takaki have pointed out, we can see the results of these attempts in current tension between Asian-Americans and Black communities on college campuses...
...strategy should be to understand the structural factors behind Black economic difficulties and attempt to remedy them, not to compare Black performance with other groups...