Word: discreditment
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Rather than adopt the tactics of the politically correct, then, conservatives must demonstrate the superiority of their arguments through rational discourse. Rather than throwing around the charge of PC to discredit the position of their opponents, a practice that will eventually begin to backfire, conservatives and moderates must seek to destroy the icons of the PC crowd. Just as in literature, "crying wolf" will only result in deaf ears when the Harvard community needs to be alerted to true examples of "political correctness...
...morning after the NBC broadcast, the New York Times included the woman's identity in a long profile so unflattering that it could serve as a brief for a defense lawyer trying to discredit her. A story naming the victim appeared in the Des Moines Register, which two weeks ago won a Pulitzer Prize for telling the story of a rape victim who, unlike Smith's accuser, wanted to have her story told. Other publications piled...
ONCE AGAIN, disgruntled artists are crying "Censorship!" in order to discredit the concept of moral standards in art. Four artists whose grant applications to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) were recently rejected have filed a lawsuit against the organization's "decency code," which forbids the funding of works of art and literature that depict homosexuality or the erotic. They claim that the code was the reason for their rejection and that it sets an unconstitutional limit on freedom of expression...
Regardless of the intentions of those who want us to believe that "43 percent of rape victims don't actually realize they have been raped," their hysterics will eventually discredit the seriousness of the charge of rape, until it means as little as the watered-down charges of "racist," "sexist" and "McCarthyite...
...soon nobody is laughing. Rumors about the ambulatory statue spread, and a local sensation quickly mesmerizes the nation. Feeling, quite correctly, threatened by all this talk, the Communists charge the parish priest with rigging the miracle to trick the faithful and discredit the ruling authorities. A more sophisticated conspiracy theory has the Communist Party plotting and executing the phenomenon so as to expose the church to ridicule, as well as charges of treason against the state. And there is a third possible interpretation: that the hand of God actually reached down into that obscure church to point muddled humans...