Word: judgmentalism
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...decision was clearly a judgment call. The referees said Kim moved side to side, illegally impeding Ohno. Disqualification is common in short track speed skating, but Kim fans, who seem to include the entire population of South Korea, claimed that Ohno was acting when he pulled up near the finish when he could not pass. Besides, asks Park Sung In, chief of mission for the Korean Olympic delegation, "Should the leading athlete make way for the passing...
...count there, even when they are broken or mislaid, as in the figure-skating meltdown. It wasn't a puzzle, this miscarriage of justice--the world saw it clearly and almost simultaneously. One could judge for oneself what had happened and what it meant, and feel confident in that judgment. Ah, certainty! The Russians slipped up, and the Canadians didn't, and any outcome that didn't reflect this fact, however official, simply wasn't legitimate. Not in my house...
...feel that my life has been very unusual. At 52, I can look back on it now with some degree of distance and judgment. Failure, disappointment and limitations in understanding have actually helped me cope with my life. And part of that comes from being Asian American. My background, sophisticated as it was, was also very traditionally Asian, and there was always enormous responsibility attached to anything I took...
...Senft spoke with TIME.com from her home in West Vancouver about the current scandal, and described the tension and discipline that goes into sitting in judgment at the Olympic level...
...whatever Eurocentric standards may be used to apply to academia. And the existence of tenure and academic freedom is what allows more creativity and extension in these fields. If one person believes that a spoken word CD is not academia, then it is not in his position to pass judgment on someone else who has tenure and thus bears the charter, mandate and obligation to explore his creativity...