Word: infantalizing
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Regionally, southern California is at the vortex it seems of America's hate-speech induced violence, one instance of which occurred in 1989 outside a supermarket in La Verne. Four skinheads attacked an Iranian couple and their week-old infant, whom they assumed were Jews. Another incident in 1991 in Fullerton involved a skin head gang assaulting a Chinese-American student and two of his White friends...
...wards are filled with the pathetic detritus of conflict and famine, and the staff -- all of two doctors -- is overwhelmed. Ten children a day are succumbing to malnutrition and disease; for lack of beds, the dying lie on unscrubbed floors. Parents feed toddlers watery porridge. A skeleton-thin infant with bulging eyes silently gasps for milk from her mother's wilted breast...
...quite sure why this is so. It's not as though I'm an anti-progress person. I like technology. I like advancement. I'm the one who argues for the "sterile, impersonal" infant delivery system in the U.S. because it saves lives. I support genetic engineering...
...Violence inspired by radicals determined to topple President Hosni Mubarak has killed 200 people in Egypt over the past two years; in Algeria, the government most immediately threatened by fundamentalists, the toll is at least 1,200. Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, which is the biggest danger to the infant peace process in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, is a special case. Its first aim is the destruction of Israel; after achieving that, Hamas would establish a Muslim state on the wreckage as a precursor to a greater pan-Islamic union...
Even more sorrowfully, the debt represents a reversal of the social contract that since the dawn of time bound the grown to care for the infant, and for the present to make a bequest to the future. In effect, the last few generations have spent their savings and their earnings. When that ran out, they spent their childrens' earnings as well...