Word: exclusionism
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Perhaps the most outspoken signer of that defiant declaration was Andrew Craig Mead, the rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston. Church traditionalists like himself, Mead charged, for too long have been "victims of exclusion, ridicule and financial pressure," and are tired of being treated by church liberals...
If there were no black people here in this country, it would have been Balkanized. The immigrants would have torn each other's throats out, as they have done everywhere else. But in becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for...
Rubbing noses in such gloom is only one of the demands Larkin makes on his readers. He also boasts (and sometimes complains) about his exclusion from * everyday life, his marginal role as a bachelor librarian, living alone and not growing mellow with age. In fact, Larkin makes of his infirmities...
Twenty years ago--when the ROTC issue exploded on campus--no mention was made of the military's discrimination against gays and lesbians. Why, 20 years later, did activists choose to fight ROTC on that platform, often to the exclusion of other arguments?
Second, I believe the members of the Undergraduate Council and the Harvard community as a whole must decide what they are trying to achieve regarding this issue. If you wish to make a symbolic act to ease your own consciences, then vote to continue the exclusion of ROTC from Harvard...