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...gang members and frightened citizens also hindered law-enforcement efforts. Traffic was snarled on one South Central street after a car careened out of control when a motorist was killed by a sniper. Fears that random gun battles would break out in the downtown office area led businesses to dismiss their employees for the weekend by Thursday afternoon. Several roadways were cordoned off by police to prevent destruction from spreading north to Hollywood and Beverly Hills from the poorer regions of the city...
...MOST DANGEROUS aspect of the high-flown rhetoric of those who dismiss others as "politically correct" lies in the power of their language--specifically in the power of two words that have been perverted and tossed around, sometimes carelessly, most of the time connivingly, at the expense of understanding and justice for all. The two words--"objective" and "political"--have become the most dangerous weapons yet of the "politically incorrect," what those who oppose any challenge to the status quo would call themselves...
...Date Rape Task Force's recommendation was too "political" to pass. Had the U.C. invited members of the Task Force to explain why they defined rape as they did, for example--i.e., had they heard the personal stories behind the political--they may have been less willing to dismiss...
Hatred of women exists on a continuum, and it expresses itself in verbal as well as physical acts of violence. We are not willing, like Galper, to dismiss what he calls "time-old complaints about shuttle buses and escort services." We have demanded physical safety and greater protection from the University repeatedly, and we will continue...
...their counter-memo, the professors asked the board to dismiss Kennedy's complaint based on the student's right to free speech...