Word: defeatists
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...involvement end with dinners and ladybugs. Kennedy hated the idea of the U.S. being drawn into the looming European catastrophe. His patriotism was genuine but isolationist and, in the Kennedy way, tribal. Eventually, of course, he came home from London in something like disgrace, dismissed as an appeaser and defeatist...
Above all, we must not feel defeatist. We can change the habits of our society. We can make waves out of Harvard that may eventually lap the west coast. I suggest we start by running a competition for a slogan with a suitable acronym. To get the ball rolling, what about "Students Of Merit Need Undisturbed Sleep...
...hard" about subjects other than their own victimization. This dubious insight came to McWhorter in the days before California's Proposition 209 outlawed the use of race in admissions. After noticing that "the black students were the worst students on campus," he concluded they were held back by three "defeatist thought patterns...