Word: denialism
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...Woman of the Year ceremony in the Hasty Pudding Theater, the Pudding cast will also preview its 152nd production, "The Jewel of Denial...
...surface, the psychology of anorexia is tantalizingly simple: The disease convinces its victims they are fat, and sufferers slowly give in to the idea that nothing could ever be quite so important as getting rid of that "fat." Beneath their single-minded dedication to starvation techniques and their denial, however, anorexics are generally dealing with an array of psychological, social and physical conflicts. Tuesday, a group of British psychiatrists added another page to the reams of possible causes of the disorder, which affects more than 1 in 250 girls and young women in the U.S. alone. The doctors' study, which...
...attached to the Confederate flag," Charlie Chan chimed in. "No. 1 Son has been telling me about a must-read new book called The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, by Randall Robinson, which makes the case that white America is suffering from a massive case of denial about the impact of slavery and discrimination. He contends that most white folks just aren't emotionally ready to admit that their lofty position in the world is partly due to 246 years' worth of unpaid labor by millions of slaves...
...wasn't gay and still got along, why should gays have to cower in the closet today? Something about the word open rattles the Army. What is the thinking when the military says that asking and telling will hurt morale? That unless everyone stays in denial, no one will take a shower? One thing that we know hurts morale is forcing people to dissemble about who waits for them at home, whom they vacation with. The Joint Chiefs fret over a breakdown of discipline, as if Tailhook had been a gay bacchanalia. Whether gay or straight, sex in the barracks...
...Morris, Fred's holocaust denial is "a device for examining false beliefs. False beliefs interest me. It raises so many questions, particularly given that 99% of what we all believe is probably false. False belief is not somehow the exception; it's the rule. It's just that there are instances where false belief becomes intolerable. There's a very interesting thing about lies: on the one hand, there's that factual issue, and then there's that question of, like, 'what are they thinking?' Is this conscious mendacity, or is he somehow in this twilight zone where...