Word: debunker
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...deeper level, to be p.c. means to debunk the enduring intellectual values of American life. For the generations that fought World War II and the cold war, those values were pluralism, freedom of individual opportunity, integration and free speech. The goal of universities, cultural institutions and most journals of scholarship and opinion was to open the American experience -- ipso facto a virtuous and desirable one -- to all comers, regardless of race, creed, color or, later on, gender. American culture was considered so good that no one should be denied a chance at it, and no one should be assumed unable...
...death as a metaphor in this way? Cover writer Paul Gray says the Freud story, like the cover on God, examines a system of thought "that is a matter of belief for millions but is coming under a particularly blistering attack at the moment. My purpose is not to debunk Freud and psychoanalysis but to assess the extent of his cultural legacy, which is vast. It is hard, although it may someday become necessary, to imagine our world without him." Speaking of debunking, Paul's piece is accompanied by a skeptical examination of the "recovered memory" movement, a practical application...
...have no value if an alien descended to Earth one day and gave us the answers to all our problems and settled all our controversies on the spot. That would defeat the purpose of living, which is to struggle against each other as individuals to find our own answers, debunk our own myths and reach our own compromises. And even if in the end we discovered that truth was only an imaginary trophy, the game will still have been worth playing. Why? Because, win or lose, what matters is how you played the game...
Domrin, a member of the Supreme Soviet for the last three years, attempted to debunk the idea that President Yeltsin and his government stood for democratic reform in a battle against a reactionary Parliament. "I do not believe the assumptions of this dilemma are totally true," Domrin said...
Masson's troubles began well before Malcolm's scathing portrait. After a meteoric rise in psychoanalytic circles, he was sacked from his heir apparency at the Freud Archives in 1981 for disparaging the private behavior of the founder of psychoanalysis and for attempting to debunk some of the master's key thinking on the prevalence and significance of child abuse -- an act of iconoclasm that Malcolm aptly termed self-destructive. Masson sued the Archives for $13 million and accepted a settlement of $150,000. Then he made another decision that in retrospect seems even more self-destructive: he agreed...