Word: disavows
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...Minter says racial and ethnic divisions still fester in daily undergraduate life, if only because most students are unwilling to face up to their own ambivalence. It is one thing to disavow intolerance, Minter says; it is quite another to bring it down...
Though the act of desecration (which ACT-UP has failed to disavow) was not depicted in the video, both Watson and Lai have freely and publicly admitted that the video presents the protest in a positive light. This was apparent even to those who had not seen the video because of the hostile tone of its publicity and the close affiliation of the filmmakers with...
...precisely because Defeat Homophobia represents those long persecuted by society that its stand is also wrong. It has leaped to the defense of an employee action it should instead disavow. Defeat Homophobia is short-sighted in advocating the suppression of unpopular opinions. The dispute is made even easier by the fact that the poster in question had nothing to do with AALARM's opinions on homosexuality; its opposition to UHS funding for abortion is well within legitimate campus discourse...
...A.N.C. commands the largest following, especially among the politically active young, urban, working and middle class. Yet many are uncertain about subscribing to the old socialist rhetoric that still colors A.N.C. pronouncements. Many more are doubtful about continuing the "armed struggle," which the A.N.C. has yet to disavow. Nevertheless, the A.N.C. has long demanded the sole right to represent the country's disenfranchised...
Other unexpected triumphs have attended the revolution. Last Tuesday two Civic Forum representatives delivered a letter to the Soviet embassy asking the Supreme Soviet to disavow the 1968 invasion. The two were assured the letter would be telexed to Moscow promptly. "We are very happy with the way events are going," embassy counselor Vasili Filipov told them. "Especially that there is no bloodshed, because we feared bloodshed." How times have changed...