Word: dismissiveness
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...Gross said that another concern is the board’s sanctions. Punishments for unsatisfactory academic records and disciplinary cases currently include academic probation, required withdrawal, or recommendation to dismiss for serious misconduct...
Similarly, it is extremely useful for a black person to try to understand the problems and struggles that may exist in the lives of white people. While white people should not get defensive about race to the point that they dismiss and overlook the racial inequalities that exist in our society, black people cannot write off the dilemmas that white people face in their lives as well. There are many white people who suffer from the ills of poverty and discrimination, and these issues must be confronted as well...
...judges agreed that the easiest thing for the 1857 court to have done would have been to determine that Scott was not a citizen, dismiss the case, and allow the ruling of the Missouri Supreme Court to stand...
...According to Breyer, one potential explanation is that Taney might have tried to cut a deal with Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, a staunch abolitionist, to dismiss the case, but that Curtis’ might have rejected the deal, prompting Taney to take a hard-line position...
...monster named Male-bashing. Despite the fact that American women are achieving at higher rates than ever before—they are accepted to colleges at higher rates than men, for instance—in the latest mutation of female empowerment, it has become totally acceptable for women to dismiss men as worthless bastards...