Word: biases
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Friday, Safir appointed a black officer to the No. 2 position in the street-crimes unit. (Black leaders dismiss the move as window dressing.) Both Safir and Giuliani have emphatically denied that the police are guilty of misconduct or racial bias. The Diallo controversy, Giuliani says, has been stirred up by political activists and the scandal-hungry press. In fact, he points out, fatal shootings by police are at their lowest level in 13 years. The police department is controversial, its supporters say, because it has been doing its job vigorously. And they note that it has been phenomenally...
...away from the practical and toward the political. Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers That Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be, co-authored with Ross D. Parke (Houghton Mifflin), is tinged with resentment and launches a multipronged attack on what Brott feels is a lingering bias against the male parent who would rather fix his children's breakfast than get a head start on the morning commute. "Margaret Mead once said fathers are a biological necessity but a social accident," Brott and Parke write. "Throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries, our culture has been...
...immediately see the political bias: if there's no social significance to the biological differences between men and women, then any legal or social sanction that separates men and women into distinct categories, such as marriage, is inherently flawed...
...important to mention that less than 5% of crimes motivated by bias are committed by organized groups. But those groups are cheerily spreading a message of antipathy that can inspire acts of violence. Hate is not a passive emotion. And when people act on it, they should be punished...
Hugh Liebert's "Black History Month Considered" (Opinion, Feb. 25) betrays a bias that views all cultural constructs of minority groups as invalid or inferior and, in addition, his anecdotes often paint the actions of black individuals as being instructive in understanding black Americans in general...