Word: denialism
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...Hopefully, Johnson's story will break through the denial and make everyone realize that it can happen to them," he said...
...Denial is apparently Jeffries' strong suit. And we don't doubt that before his fate at CCNY is resolved, He' ll have lots else to deny. The real question here isn't why Jeffries persists in insulting Jews or other whites, along with blacks who don't share his views. Bigots are bigots. What's curious is the determination with which educational administrators in New York City and state--like Harleston and Education Commissioner Thomas Sobol--continue to place Jeffries on search committees and key curricular revision panels...
...about sexist behavior are taken even less seriously than white women's. Held down by racism and the sexism of both black and white males, black females are one of society's most oppressed groups. Yet their attempts to call attention to their plight routinely provoke storms of angry denial of the legitimacy of their complaints. An example: the denunciations that were heaped on Alice Walker for her novel The Color Purple and the film that was based on it. Some critics falsely charged that Walker was a lesbian who hated black men because she created a heroine...
That is why this long-awaited recognition is so important for the Ukraine and for the former communist world. It is a remembrance of a true history rather than a convenient history or a propagandized history. Like the Vietnam Memorial, erected after years of denial and marginalization of the veterans of that war, the monument at Babi Yar is an important part of a history that many don't want to admit...
Even if they remember the incest, survivors usually try at first to minimize the damage by saying, "It only lasted two years," or "It's only my brother." Many times they will find a great deal of support in this denial from other members of their family, their spouses or their friends, who do not . want to talk about incest any more than the victims do. Men are particularly adept at trying to downplay the effects of abuse. "It was just supposed to be part of growing up," says Harold Watson, 38, an artist in New York City...