Word: egalitarians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quest for world peace, for human rights, for egalitarian societies is a noble one indeed. Individual oppression and mass genocide, on all counts, is reprehensible. But let's not set up the Cold War dichotomies of "good" and "evil" anymore. Let's not congratulate Bush and his military strategists on their bloody war, while we slap their hands for not beating on someone else...
...made your choice, and I told you I can accept it. And I can. But can you? Can you continue to be the responsible, caring, sensitive and egalitarian person you have been? Will you defend me and what I represent? When you're sitting around with your male club members in your closed space smoking cigars and drinking gin and tonics, will you cede me the respect I continue to have for you? Do you trust your new fellows and the institution you have just joined enough to be responsible for them and their actions...
Please know that if you ever see me outside your club's doors, I am not waiting to come in. If I am ever outside those doors, I will be shouting and demanding an end to the institution to which you now belong. I will be demanding an egalitarian Harvard that offers all of its members--regardless of class, race or gender--an opportunity to create a space on their own terms...
...egalitarian ideal, a society with more opportunities for those who wish to practice medicine, with cheaper health care for all and with a smaller gap between the incomes of doctors and the incomes of most other people (including nurses) would surely be more desirable than a society like the one we have now, except that 12% of the doctors are black and half are women...
...ideal, possibly harder to achieve politically than simple reverse discrimination. It steps directly on more powerful toes. But it cannot be faulted by conservatives as social engineering, as interference with free lives and free markets. Broadcasting and medicine are just two areas where the more radical solution, the more egalitarian one, is more oriented toward free markets. But don't expect conservatives to take up this rallying cry. Some of them would rather admit a ration of minorities into their cozy establishments than see those establishments truly shaken up. Others, like Jesse Helms, would rather rub racial wounds raw than...