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...choice community needs to play upon the discomfort most Americans feel with abortion. They must not write off what are most certainly valid moral qualms but should instead seize upon the controversy surrounding EC to make the pro-choice lobby into something as widely inclusive as its label...
...recent hate-motivated incident of vandalism at Columbia. He then applies this criticism to Harvard’s previous outcry against a “minor altercation” that left a gay student hospitalized last spring. Hastrup raises an important point: people should think twice before inappropriately labeling expressions or actions as hate speech or hate crimes. However, to label these campus responses as “misplaced outrage” to incidents that are supposedly isolated from discrimination on campus trivializes the experiences of victims and their communities. Furthermore, Hastrup’s suggestion that minorities would...
...frightening message last spring when a fellow student was beaten near a queer dance party on Harvard’s campus. Any one of the hundreds of queer and non-queer students who attended the dance could have been the victim. It is simply unfathomable how Hastrup can label this crime as an isolated occurrence that “was so unrelated to homophobia on campus.” Any hate crime on campus is absolutely relevant to the overt and subtle forms of campus discrimination that affect minority students...
...have lost their roots, is the bestselling author of the controversial books “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word” and “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption.” He also cited some examples of figures who have been labeled as sellouts—such as Christopher Darden, an African-American prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, Clarence Thomas, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and himself. “The idea of racial betrayal has been and remains a significant force in African-American life...
...people slow down, hang out and chill. This year, however, the sweltering city is on edge, bewildered and a little sad. This year, it's not bushfires threatening the harmony of the city?s 4 million residents, but instead ugly scenes of street violence in what many mistakenly label a contagion of racial hatred...