Word: denialism
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...February 23 the Center for Democracy, the first monitoring organization invited to observe the elections, said in an open letter that the Sandinistas had attempted to stonewall international observers. The letter cited the government's refusal to allow two dozen Democratic and Republican observers into the country and its denial of entry to several Central American governments' representatives...
...after the Great Society, the emphasis on dignity, struggle and pride in accomplishment was replaced in the rhetoric of some black leaders by a toxic seepage of self-pity, of the victim theme. Passivity, grievance and denial became the psychic orthodoxy. The culture of victimization came to replicate in an eerie way the configurations of slave days -- the Government functioning as benevolent slave master, dispenser of all things. Many blacks were trapped in ghettos as surely and hopelessly as slaves on plantations. Perhaps civil rights organizations, designed to battle discrimination and hardening over the years into institutional mind-sets, could...
Contained in the book's 452 pages is exhaustive documention of almost every University scandal to be unearthed in the past 25 years: CIA funding of research at the Center for International Affairs; the attempted sale of University posts to a Texas couple in 1987; the denial of tenure to Chester Hartman because of his political leanings...
...Well, I think that there is no question because of who it's happening to. I mean, you can say all you want about denial, but this is happening to black people and to Hispanic people and to people who take drugs and to gay people and to babies who are born out of wedlock, and these are all people that a lot of other people would just as soon weren't there...
...center of the universe. Then Darwin showed that man is not organically superior to animals; and finally, psychoanalysis asserted that man is not "master in his own house." The self-esteem of Soviet communism suffered all three blows at once but lumbered on for years in a dusk of denial. Despite the pretensions of Marx and Lenin, the system that bears their name is manifestly not the ordained ; design of history, not superior to all others, and not even the master of its own house...