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Finally, the fact that these meetings are only open to women ignores the fact that male members of the Council may have similar concerns and/or be interested in gender-specific issues. Believe it or not, male participation may even enhance the discussion. To automatically disregard the validity of an entire gender's point of view is blatantly closed-minded. There is a word to describe this: discriminatory...
...China go resident who had recently been arrested for illegally carrying a hand gun for sell defense. "We have a saying on the street we'd rather the police catch us with it than the other guys catch us without it." In a country of criminals who disregard others right, honest citizens are left defenseless...
...didn't matter who danced with who..." Jones stated over and over and over again in an autobiographical poem that prefaced the program. His statement was tongue-in-check, referring to those societal restrictions that determine what partnering is "acceptable." But Jones and his dancers proceeded to disregard any such limitations. Their form of dance overcomes barriers of sociology and physiology, ignoring predefined gender roles and focusing wholly on the integrity of the movement. The company most effectively demonstrated this ideal in their performance of the first movement of "Soon," a duet created by Jones. The movement was performed three...
Furthermore, those who present Islam as violently anti-Jewish completely disregard the centuries of cooperation and peaceful coexistence between believers of the two faiths. In portraying the Black-Jewish conflict as somehow ingrained in Islam, Muhammad and his cronies perpetuate the myth of an intransigent antagonism between Jews and Muslims...
...approach such truth as our ideal, rather than reject than reject it as inexpedient. If we do not hold the truth as sacred but instead choose to sacrifice it for ends we believe to be essential, then two inevitable questions arise: which ends and who decides? It is a disregard for the inviolability of truth that allows certain individuals to claim that the Holocaust never occurred. It is a disregard for the inviolability of truth that enables many of the same people to assume that Blacks are inherently laid-back, rhythmic and athletic. Yet in spite of these inescapable dangers...