Word: hrc
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...dropped out of the race. At the end of last year, women, half of the Harvard student body, didn’t even make up a full quarter of the UC. The new president of the College Democrats is female, as is 60 percent of the board, but the HRC executive board is still all male...
...first to say that I was as shocked as anyone to find out that people still care about what Ann Coulter has to say—and not just any people, major players. The New York Times had a story on the event, and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) both denounced Coulter. Insulting the intelligence of bullies everywhere, the HRC pictures former NBA star John Amaechi telling us that Coulter’s use of the “f-Word…emboldens bullies in the school yard...
Coulter, like Fred Phelps and a handful of other extremist, be-cardiganed Evangelical ministers, has the potential to be of real use to the cause of LGBT rights, but the HRC, GLAAD and other pro-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations have to play their cards better. We did an excellent job internalizing the elementary school lessons about the importance of discourse, but we seem to have been sidetracked before we learned what to do about...
...squandered it. There are few occasions when homophobic speech comes from a source that is indisputably further from the mainstream than these organizations themselves. This “incident” (if you can even call it that) had all the makings of one of those occasions. Yet the HRC and GLAAD, in taking Coulter seriously, only diminished their own respectability...
Former welfare mother and self-proclaimed “conservative crusader” Star Parker blasted U.S. welfare policy and advocated a market-based approach to alleviating poverty at the Harvard Republican Club’s (HRC) fifth annual Lincoln Day Dinner last night. “We’ve got to remove the barriers of ‘Uncle Sam’: let’s allow freedom. Let’s force them into responsibility,” Parker said of welfare recipients. Instead, Parker advocated an emboldened work ethic, reforms in education, and encouraging charity...