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Ideological discrimination has been no less violent. The tenets of racism have beer developed and continue to be taught at no less than this country's most esteemed universities. The characterizations of blacks as animal, barbarian, infantile, pre-scientific, intellectually inferior, psychologically disadvantaged, and morally unsound continue to buttress the intellectual foundations of social relations in this country. How perfectly consistent that no attempt would be made on the part of universities to study thoroughly the history and civilizations of the African continent without the pressure of vocal militants. How perfectly consistent that American colonizers would ignore all the history...
...reducing its level of effort. My conclusion was that there was no doubt that were those trends to continue, then inevitably the lines would cross, and we would be injecting a fundamental instability into the world. Further, you didn't have to wait until we were in an inferior position for that instability to occur...
Each forward step in modern technology tends to reduce the difference between the older categories of experience. Take, for example, the once elementary distinction between transportation and communication: between moving the person and moving the message. While communication once was an inferior substitute for transportation (you had to read the account because you couldn't get there), it is now often the preferred alternative...
...national newspaper, which he founded in 1964 and refers to as his "flagship." The Australian is a good, solid journal of politics, business and criticism, paying attention to the arts as well as to sports. There is no paper like it in the U.S. Although writing and perceptions are inferior, The Australian is vaguely reminiscent of London's Observer, which Murdoch vainly tried to buy last year as part of his drive for respectability in Britain. Ironically, The Australian has never made money...
...refrain among the writers: male prejudice and parental expectations create many more problems for women than Freudianism has so far acknowledged. Writes Virginia Clower of Washington, D.C.: "To the extent that our society continues to educate mothers and fathers who see their female children as biological castrates doomed to inferior psychological, moral and social development, we will continue to produce women who regard themselves as second class...