Word: hating
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...With the same intensity as he loves Karin, Henrik loathes his cold-fish father. "I hate him so much I'd happily watch him die of some horrible disease," he tells the shocked Marianne when they meet in the deserted village church. "I'd visit him daily and take note of his torment down to the last breath." Johan is equally venomous, telling his son, "If you didn't have Karin, who, thank God, takes after her mother, you wouldn't exist for me at all." But behind his contempt is the ache of envy. Johan, whom Marianne describes...
...laws. The U.N. Human Rights Commission resolved in April to combat what it called "defamation campaigns against Islam and Muslims in the West." In Italy, journalist Oriana Fallaci has been ordered to stand trial for vilifying Islam in a recent book. Britain is also considering a law against religious hate speech. Author Salman Rushdie, whom Iranian clerics once ordered killed for maligning Islam, called the law an "attempt to placate British Muslim spokesmen, in whose eyes just about any critique of Islam is offensive...
...everyone who approaches the book with an open mind—even those who are sympathetic to campus bans on hate speech—will come away feeling uneasy at the intimidation tactics he attributes to some law school students and professors. It is difficult not to feel outraged and disappointed upon hearing, for example, how Rosenberg was removed from his class for his comment that “the blacks have contributed nothing to torts”—clearly within the context of referring to black Crits. Rosenberg’s comments about his own case...
Thomas also shies away from a substantive debate about the merits of permitting free speech on campuses. He is a free speech absolutist, and comes down clearly on one side of the debate of whether academic institutions ought to be allowed to limit hate speech on their campuses. But he does not engage much with the philosophical issues at play. He finds absurdity in the actions of his ideological opponents, and is probably right on that point, but he does not actually argue why we should all be free speech absolutists as he is. Because he only asserts this...
...hate for this to be considered a stretch of Harvard’s river,” said Margaret Van Deusen, deputy director of the Charles River Waterfront Society...