Word: denialism
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...human characteristic that I think is so magnificent, and that allows us to relate to human beings as human beings, is empathy. For Scott Peterson and the rest of sociopaths, they don't have that. Having been crushed psychologically in childhood, they have made a decision to live in denial of their own feelings. Once they no longer feel fear, or any kind of real love or anxiety themselves, they no longer can feel any of those things for anyone else. They can't resonate with the pain of others. So they're free, in a terrible...
...Oblivious, in denial, dangerous." NANCY PELOSI, U.S. House of Representatives minority leader, characterizing President George W. Bush's lack of awareness of the plight of people affected by Hurricane Katrina...
...problem, in retrospect, is that no one had wanted to believe it. "I'll be honest with you. I'm the researcher, I'm doing all the models, and sometimes I would say to myself, 'Am I Chicken Little? Could this really happen?'" says Wolshon. "Even I was in denial, and I was the one running all the numbers...
...about whether he had intimidated minority voters as a Republican poll watcher during the 1960s in Arizona, where he was practicing law at the time. Rehnquist's critics produced affidavits alleging that he harassed voters at a predominantly black and Hispanic Phoenix precinct in 1964. Rehnquist issued a blanket denial that he had challenged the qualifications of minority voters in that period. Democrats found 14 witnesses who swore they had seen Rehnquist doing exactly that; additionally, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Phoenix, James Brosnahan, testified that Rehnquist was not being truthful when he said he was at the polls...
...Denial can kill. I believe that Manji is, however, mistaken in blaming religion for terrorism. A person's actions are decided and forged in reality, not religion. Islam is not to blame. While religion is a powerful force, it is not the reason that terrorism exists. The terrorists are trying to protect their culture, land and dignity in an unreasonable, extreme way. Manji asks Muslims to "own up" to the negative ideas that radicals find in the Koran. But that does nothing to rectify the situation or change the system. Change is needed?;not just personal change but social change...