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Hussein spent the rest of the race hiding from the press in the Red Cross van. As he helped me get out a blanket for another runner at the station I asked...
...blanket anti-discrimination rule would force single-sex sports teams, counseling groups and choirs to admit members of the opposite sex. Taken to its logical totalitarian extreme, this principle would prevent adoptive parents from requesting a boy or a girl...
...place, Smith's case in favor of "giving the gift of a smile or a polite greeting" is limited and short-sighted. The desperation that impels people to beg for money is beyond being restored by a pitying greeting form passers by. Sleeping on grates wrapped in a ragged blanket involves the loss of more dignity than is redeemable through "just saying hello." Smith overestimates the power of a greeting if she really believes that it is "priceless" to the poor that she condescends to greet...
...want to be friendly for fear they will encourage further contact and perhaps harassment. Admittedly, this can happen. No one should risk personal safety, and there are times to be curt or even rude in order to protect oneself. But this is not usually the case. A blanket negative reaction toward any group of people undermines everyone's right to be judged individually...
...Orientals are overrepresented in the sciences." Displaying similar grouping, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Mark S. Ptashne remarked to his Biochemistry 10b class, "maybe I should say [the lecture material] in Chinese"--presumably because of the high number of Asian-Americans in the class. These sorts of blanket generalizations, while not motivated by real racial prejudice, represent a measure of ignorance...