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Furthermore, Bosco condemns "Justice" professor Michael Sandel for making "it clear with which side his sympathies lay." For anyone who watched the debate without bias, it was clear that Sandel was merely trying to elicit some argument from Mansfield, who seemed resolved not to make one. Sandel's attempt to draw Mansfield out--and to salvage an embarrassingly one-sided contest--was more of an effort to rescue the floundering Mansfield than to harm him further. It is Bosco's article, severely influenced by obvious personal prejudice, that makes it clear with which side his sympathies...
Staff members have also said the makeup of thecommittee--which includes only facultymembers--belies a preliminary bias in favor of theacademic rather than the public facets of themuseum. And staffers say they were not given thechance to participate in the committee'sdeliberations...
Staff members charged last week that Stager and the other committee members began the review with a bias in favor of directing the museum towards a more academic focus at the expense of its public programs...
...nativist sentiment that foreigners are somehow inferior to the American- born may be the nation's oldest and most persistent bias. (Curiously, it was not until 1850 that the U.S. Census took note of where Americans were born.) Apart from slaves, Asians (principally the Chinese) suffered most from this prejudice. Seeking fortune and escape from the turmoil of the Opium Wars, Chinese first began arriving in California during the 1840s. Initially, they were welcomed. During the 1860s, 24,000 Chinese were working in the state's gold fields, many of them as prospectors. As the ore gave out, former miners...
After the Chinese were excluded, Japanese became the principal concern of nativists who feared America's contamination by a "Yellow Peril." The shameful nadir of this bias followed the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Under pressure from security-conscious Army officials, the Federal Government exiled more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast to internment camps in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. Despite this humiliation, 30,000 Japanese Americans served in uniform, and the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Battalion became the most decorated...