Word: equivalencyã
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...myopia has given rise to a pernicious moral equivalency??exhibited most recently in S. Allen Counter’s comparison of the tactics of the South African apartheid regime to the Harvard University Police Department’s. A meaningfully “international” community would recoil instinctively from such a plainly ignorant distortion—one that imputes the reputation of a murderous regime to police officers who had merely asked students for their IDs, quickly learned that their gathering was legitimate, and let the merriment continue unabated. The comparison is no more intelligent...
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