Word: forbids
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...accordance with its new free speech guidelines, the University did not forbid a Kirkland student from publicly displaying a Confederate Flag although many said they found the symbol offensive and insensitive, calling it a symbol of Black oppression and slavery...
...court's ruling in Rust v. Sullivan made little medical or intellectual or moral sense. It does not forbid women to seek abortion counseling and referrals. But it narrows -- and in some cases may even eliminate -- access to such services for many poor and low-income women who cannot afford private medical advice, thereby placing informed choice beyond their reach. "For these women," Justice Harry Blackmun warned in a harsh dissenting opinion, "the government will have obliterated the freedom to choose as surely as if it had banned abortions outright." The court's action set pro- and anti- abortion advocates...
...last statutory vestiges of so-called petty apartheid -- lifted the ban on the African National Congress and freed many political prisoners, most prominently Nelson Mandela. Now De Klerk is about to pull down what are generally regarded as the last remaining legal pillars of apartheid: the laws that forbid blacks to live in white areas or < own land outside their tribal homelands and require that every South African be classified by race at birth. All are scheduled to be repealed by the white parliament before it concludes its term at the end of June...
...patronizing attitude toward small towners is more subtle but just as annoying. One episode makes snide fun of the tavern owner's 19-year-old girlfriend, who gets a satellite dish and becomes addicted to tacky TV fare like Wheel of Fortune and the Home Shopping Network. God forbid somebody in a remote Alaskan town should actually pass the time watching TV. What would Voltaire think...
This dynamic can be best demonstrated by the baneful effects of PC on other elite campuses with less open-minded administrations. Amherst College has forbid the sale of Coca-Cola products on campus because of the corporation's investments in South Africa-despite Coca-Cola's brilliant record of providing scholarships for Black South Africans and other aid for the oppressed non-white majority of that racist regime...