Word: inhumane
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...could easily ask why I am "picking on" women. It is just that, over the last two years, I have been exposed to what seems like an enormous volume of literature, activity, and so forth, by radical feminists and radical lesbians displaying an almost inhuman hatred of men, a feeling that men were worthless and uninteresting, and (most worrying of all) feeling that the aforementioned feelings were good, wholesome, noble, liberated feelings to have...
...doctrinaire conservative, Burns actually was a wide-ranging and surprisingly pragmatic money manager who dismayed conservatives almost as often by pumping out money rapidly as he frightened liberals by keeping credit tight. The A.F.L.-C.l.O.'s George Meany called him "a national disaster" because of his "inhuman" insensitivity to unemployment. Actually, Burns has carried a lifelong feeling for the plight of the jobless. This is partly the result of his own experience as a pre-World War I Austrian immigrant to Bayonne, N.J., where at the age of ten he knocked on doors to help his father find work...
When Ambassador Andrew Young and his friends in the Eastern intellectual Establishment begin to raise as much hell about present inhuman conditions for young blacks in our own country, and only then will I buy their sincerity about being concerned for the rights of blacks in South Africa. Economic and political conditions for blacks in South Africa are more humane than in most of the black-ruled states of that continent...
Several months ago, President Carter indicated that human rights would finally become an important criterion in American foreign policy, yet the United States has made no move to dissociate itself from the inhuman Marcos regime in the Philippines. If the Carter administration is serious about human rights in other nations, it should reconsider its position with regard to the Philippines...
...abstract, but in reality they twist people into hideous shapes. Night-Side seems to be an indictment of philosophers on behalf of ordinary people. But in that case, why doesn't Oates show any sympathy for all these ordinary, tortured people? Although she describes her characters with inhuman intelligence. Oates never shows the slightest hint of compassion for them. Her identification of existential despair and mental illness is not so much a psychological observation as a justification for her own misanthropy...