Word: blatantness
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...This blatant call for the suppression of minority opinions resulted from a tutor-sponsored talk on “tolerance,” and Green’s eagerness to silence Pappin should cause us all to wonder just what sort of tolerance these decriers of hate speech have in mind. On the surface, Green and the other tutors who sponsored the meeting are advocating respect for people’s differences. But in reality, their disrespect for Pappin’s right to disagree with their vision of inclusiveness indicates a dangerous and corrupted definition of tolerance: respect only...
...said that other provisions of the PATRIOT Act—such as the FBI being able to subpoena individuals’ personal records—were more blatant violations...
...American Foreign Policy,” are using new software such as Eve2 and the website TurnItIn.com to check students’ work against the massive volumes of content on the web. Professors should feel free to use these resources, which are valuable in identifying cases of blatant Internet plagiarism. Because it includes stock essays from websites like lazystudent.com in its databases, using this type of software can be a more effective method than simply relying on whether a paper “feels right...
...Such blatant homophobia and discrimination by Harvard, even in 1920, is deplorable. The existence of such a court and the prosecution of students on the basis of sexual orientation is appalling. The events that transpired in the 1920s are not excusable because the atmosphere at Harvard and in society was less understanding at the time; they should not have happened then, and they should not happen anywhere today...
...engineered slam-dunk loss. Question 3’s voting results as broken down by town show that there is, in fact, a very significant overlap in districts which passed Question 4/5/6 and towns which did not pass Question 3, often with similarly wide margins. The lesson is as blatant as it is worrisome: in all likelihood, voters in many communities read Question 3, were convinced by its subjective presentation to check off “no,” then moved three or two or even one step down to the local measure and were just as convinced...