Word: discreditation
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Conservatives discredit Patterson by pointing out that she is an acknowledged lesbian, with a presumed ideological interest in the subject she studies. They counter with the Family Research Institute study of 1983 and a further survey in Dallas in 1984. Of 5,162 respondents, only 17 reported having had a homosexual parent. Of those, 11 "explicitly attributed their sexual orientation, in part at least, to parental homosexuality." Even the people who conducted this survey concede that the sample was far too small to be reliable. Moreover, if recent research is right in suggesting a genetic basis for homosexuality...
Instead of looking at incontrovertible facts that rise moral, ethical, and legal questions, Hoyte opted to discredit my complaint using, ironically, the same traditional arguments wielded by those historically opposed to our society's racial integration and diversification. Andres Paniagua
...date. Clearly stung, Defense Secretary Les Aspin, a former Congressman, ordered an internal investigation at the Pentagon. Said he: "Any allegation that the Congress has been misled raises serious questions." Said Senator David Pryor, whose long-standing probe of SDI seems to have triggered the revelations: "It could totally discredit the testing process and the credibility of the Pentagon...
...memory lapse of one of Hill's key supporters, Judge Susan Hoerchner. Hoerchner was able to provide pivotal evidence for Hill, since she testified that Hill had confided that she was being sexually harassed ten years before. Her charges, therefore, could not have been trumped up solely to discredit Thomas...
...Bassett does not complain. "People want me to feel badly about that, and I don't. If ((the filmmakers)) want to honor her in that way at the end of the movie, and if the audiences appreciate seeing her that way, then let them have it. It doesn't discredit my work and the joy that I brought to this role...