Word: discreditation
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When Morrison's Pulitzer was viewed by some as a token bestowed to appease a racial minority, a grave injustice was done a great writer. That attempt to discredit Morrison's accomplishment, though she was vindicated by being awarded the Nobel, should remind discerning readers how such concepts as affirmative action have victimized the very people they were originally intended to affirm. It is time to let go of an outdated system and give people credit based solely on merit, blind to race, by eliminating special admissions standards and token vacancies...
...enthusiasms sometimes betray him. He wastes time, for instance, trying to discredit the Bush campaign in a gambit that does not pan out. On the other hand, his laughing ferocity in defense of the candidate when he is attacked on issues Carville regards as diversionary and his confident contempt for his opponents are inspirational. He may not be charismatic in the usual sense of the word, but you can see him hypnotizing the staff. And smooth, soft-voiced George Stephanopoulos, the campaign's director of communications, whose idea of cutting loose is to blow bubble gum while...
...second powerful tactic liberals use is labelling. Liberals apply certain negative labels to Republicans and conservatives to discredit their opinions, so those opinions cease to count...
...hardly his fault for being dead. In the panorama of intellectual history, there are quite a few dead people, many of whose observations were, and continue to be brilliant. We have come to a rather low form of argument indeed, when one side of this debate tries to discredit its opponent (on a T-shirt, no less) for being mortal. Nietzsche never claimed to be immortal--well, when he did, it was really the spirochetes talking. In any case, smearing someone for having obeyed the most demanding of biological imperatives, is hardly an example of Jesuitical logic...
Emanuel is less optimistic. "I am afraid thathe might discredit health care reform," he says...