Word: homophobia
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...doubt you didn't mean to diminish us, or to assault our morale and efficacy as teachers by glorifying homophobia thus. We frankly wonder how far we figured in your thoughts, if at all. We cannot stop you from inviting Powell to Harvard, but we must express our strong feeling that his opinions on this issue are without merit, insulting and discriminatory. Given its timing, the Harvard invitation is all too likely to give comfort to those who think it is acceptable to belittle, misrepresent and continue to disenfranchise...
Third, I would like to appeal to the many good people in this community who have been supportive of gays and lesbians here at Harvard. We need your support now. We need you to speak out against intolerance and homophobia. We need you to join us in protest. We need you to open your minds and hearts to the real needs of people whose suffering is often invisible, but whose oppression is very real indeed. I began working for civil rights in the fifties and sixties in Louisiana, a struggle that made a real difference in the lives...
...have to stop sermonizing, sanctimony...clubbishness and cliquishness," she said. Paglia said tension between homosexuals and heterosexuals ensures the survival of homophobia...
Homosexuals must allow for debate and discussion and stop propaganda against homophobia, Paglia said. "Scholars and scientists must think of themselves as being larger than their gay identity," she said...
...American psyche that the Eurocentric educational system has done. When Cornel West says, for example, that Afrocentrics are misguided, I am reminded that the basic book of Western Civilization, the bible--which I'm reading line by line and reading all the commentary on--justifies slavery, misogyny, missandry, homophobia, persecution of followers of other gods, and that the central figure of Western Civilization, Jesus Christ, makes very intolerant speeches about Greeks and Samaratins; he was a vulgar nationalist. And I think something is to be said for both sides. When [West] lectures [Afrocentics] for their fascism, he tolerates fascism...