Word: feared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such sentiment has not gone away. In the 1980s, there was a rash of Japan-bashing whose rhetoric affected not only Japanese Americans but other Asian Americans who were grouped with them. The 1997 campaign-finance scandal involving Chinese American John Huang also demonstrated that the fear of "yellow peril" persists. I don't think the scandal would have been half as pernicious if the donor had been, say, a German American...
...much harder time being accepted by corporate America. A big reason is that mental ailments are often still kept under wraps. An employer may not even be aware that someone has a mental illness until a difficulty arises on the job. But the biggest problem remains old-fashioned fear. "There is still an enormous apprehension in hiring people with psychiatric disabilities, for fear that they will go out of control," says Ellen Gussaroff, a New York City psychoanalyst who estimates that about one-third of her patients have had problems on the job. "But there are people with chronic mental...
While the ADA has heightened awareness that discriminating against the disabled is illegal, there has been a backlash from some less enlightened employers, sources say. "Because of a greater awareness of the law, sometimes companies are afraid to hire people with a disability. They fear that they'll be sued if that person is fired for any reason," says Patricia Veal, a human-resources placement specialist with the North Carolina division of vocational-rehabilitation services in Greensboro...
...whole new arsenal of insults opens up. Those supporting the Davis suit contend that sexualized behavior can often get out of hand. And when schools sweep problems aside by saying "Kids will be kids"--or, more often, "Boys will be boys"--sexual harassment can become sexual discrimination, since the fear and psychological stress can take a toll on a child's ability to learn and infringe on the Title IX right to an equal education...
...risk has scored many successes, and I don't want to be ungrateful. But as more time, effort and money go into the crusade, bringing increasingly marginal gains, you have to start wondering: Is all this safety worth the fear it brings...