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...same is not so true of the rest of the world. The millions of citizens who still view some of their neighbors with fear and anger have been given yet another platform to ground their baseless suspicions. And it comes from a Harvard student who will likely graduate with honors and offer to the world this intellectual foundation for discriminating against gays and lesbians...
Lurie said approving the grant might cost the council its tax-exempt status, a claim which Chopra and several other council members dismissed as baseless...
...called the IOLTA program a “Robin Hood taking”—“taking from the rich to give to indigent defendants.” But since the “rich” experience no loss, Scalia’s accusation is baseless. What Fried proposed the court do—take from the poor to protect an overly-narrow definition of property—would be far worse...
...phallus’ detractors might point to its large-size life-like features to label it not art, but an obscene symbol of male excess. The phallus might be threatening as a reminder of the subjugation of women by the hard-hearted, monolithic patriarchy. These objections are baseless. Although the builders of the snow phallus likely took pleasure in the sheer physical presence of the work, this pleasure does not invalidate the artistic merits of the sculpture. Moreover, public expressions such as the phallus should be debated, not destroyed. The next time a phallus goes up in the Yard...
...perverted” and “unnatural.” His opponents have now had over a month to devise a well-reasoned, substantive refutation to what is an obvious fallacy. A refutation, perhaps, along these lines: “Pappin’s puritanical obsessions are baseless because he condemns other people’s private, mutually consensual sexual activities, which have no bearing on his own well-being.” Pappin’s opponents, however, have not said anything even remotely close to this, but have instead demonstrated their own intolerance by labeling his letter...