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...drug abuse and addiction abounded, the inevitable backlash set in, with a decidedly racist and xenophobic tinge. A 1910 federal survey reported that "cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes in the South and other sections of the country." Southern sheriffs believed cocaine even rendered blacks impervious to .32-cal. bullets (as a result many police departments switched to .38-cal.). Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U.S. "If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope," concluded the blue-ribbon citizens' panel, the Committee...
...Ming Tu '63 said the debate over these issues is itself a "mixed blessing." On the positive side, a "united front for Westernization has been created, but there has also been a backlash by traditionalists based on xenophobic, anti-foreign feelings...
Fearful of a backlash, corporations tend to be hesitant about describing the inner workings of their monitoring programs. Says Barton Reppert, publisher of Office Health & Safety Monitor, a newsletter: "Many companies won't say anything in detail about it. It's a very sensitive area." Companies with thousands of workers doing repetitive jobs tend to operate some of the most stringent monitoring systems. At Pacific Southwest Airlines offices in San Diego and Reno, the master computer records exactly how long the 400 reservation clerks spend on each call and how much time passes before they pick up their next...
...leaders fear that the decision will nonetheless be a devastating blow to the efforts of homosexuals to win social toleration. They have been on the defensive anyway against a public backlash spurred partly by terror over the spread of AIDS. Homophobes "want us to go back into the closet," says Jean O'Leary, executive director of National Gay Rights Advocates. "Now the Supreme Court has even made the closet unsafe...
...antigay backlash is for the most part a peculiarly American phenomenon. Britain, West Germany and the Scandinavian countries repealed antihomosexual laws years ago, and France and Japan never had any. There has been no discernible change in attitudes since AIDS came to public attention. Homosexuality is illegal throughout the Islamic world and in the Soviet Union and India, but even there, legal punishment is infrequent. It is more common in Latin America, where gays sometimes face extralegal violence as well. An extreme example: self-appointed vigilantes have gunned down 65 suspected homosexuals on the streets of Cali, Colombia...