Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter read to me like it was written by someone who had a real concern that bias existed and that part of that bias was that many Crimson. writers were Jewish," Feldman says. this is a reading that Feldman says is "not by nature anti-Semitic...
Case in point: This April, Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations Director S. Allen Counter co-signed a long, nasty letter accusing "Crimson writers active in Hillel" of racial insensitivity and bias, of using this newspaper to promote their own "racial agenda." And then all hell broke loose...
...although conservative mistrust of the news media and misgivings about the nature of the modern academy are warranted, the way in which conservatives have reacted to media bias and universities' religious indifferences...
...black life is meaningless and black rights do not exist." To many blacks, the fact that the not-guilty verdicts were handed down by a jury that included no blacks (though it did have one Asian and one Hispanic) virtually proves that the criminal-justice system is ruled by bias and that they cannot look to it for fair treatment. They dismiss as a sham the official contention that the trial was moved from Los Angeles to nearby Simi Valley to guard against prejudicial publicity influencing the jury. In their view, the move was made precisely for the purpose...
Under J. Edgar Hoover, FBI agents often served as shock troops in the fight against civil rights. Last week the bureau announced a plan to end what 300 of its black agents had charged was lingering bias in the way promotions and fast-track assignments are made. The new rules avert a threatened lawsuit...