Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, it is your rabid talk of overthrow that has given me the germ of an idea of how to fight your empire of evil...after all these years of hearing you blabber, I can exaggerate your comic-book Marxism to the point where it does nothing but damage to your cause...
Salient prexy Tom Firestone '86, with what can only be feigned indignation, huffs on at length about Harvard's massive investments not just in Russia, but the "EVIL EMPIRE" (excessive capitalization for rhetorical effect is the author's). "Failure to divest will prove that the Corporation is as hypocritical as the protesters to whose pressure it has already succumbed," Firestone concludes, as yet another thunderbolt of moral indignation cracks over the heads of the keepers of Harvard's billions...
Firestone and others are in effect arguing moral equivalence. You think South Africa is evil, well get a load of Soviet atrocities, where, as Firestone quotes George Will, more poeple have died in two average days of Soviet history than did in the past year in South Africa...
...think the administration or Dean Upton has a particularly evil intent to quell free speech," says third-year student Douglas Hagerman. "I just don't think that they have an adequate understanding of the implications of being called in [to Upton's office...
Whether or not the Soviet Union is somehow "more evil" than South Africa is not a relevant issue. What is relevant is what we can do to help remedy the regrettable situations in both countries...