Word: infantalizing
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...Pentagon squanders billions on such expensive duds as the M-1 Abrams tank, the Bradley fighting vehicle and the Advanced Tactical Fighter. Meanwhile, the U.S. has by far the highest rate of infant mortality among the industrial democracies, and the rate of infant mortality among Black Americans exceeds those of several developing countries...
...staff also gets carried away with its attack on military spending. To link military spending to high infant mortality rates without any analysis is irresponsible...
...When women can read and write, infant mortality rates go down, population growth slows down, and life expectancy goes up," Lown said. Money that countries such as India and South Africa are currently appropriating for military spending could be used to educate their populations and thereby address grave medical concerns, Lown said...
...Infant mortality rates in poor black neighborhoods in cities like Washington are soaring in part because so many black children are drug addicts when they are born. The comparison is misleading, because poverty and a lack of access to prenatal care are the most important causes of high infant mortality. To genocide theorists, of course, keeping blacks poor and denying them health care are both part of the plan...
...standard for journalistic hagiography was set in 1932 with the kidnaping and later killing of Charles Lindbergh's infant son. Lindbergh was already a bona fide hero, so the media concentrated on canonizing his family: the faithful and pregnant wife; the child who was "a golden-haired replica of his famous father"; Lindbergh's "visibly distraught" mother, who, despite her suffering, persisted in teaching chemistry at a high school in Detroit...