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There is a latent danger in the Court's decision, a danger that minority religions will be suffocated in the name of universal societal values. As Carter writes: "Without [religious] freedoms...religious communities whose values differ from the mainstream might be unable to survive.... Our self-righteous certainty that we know all the answers might lead us to decide that religions whose values are too different from ours do not deserve to survive...
Conservative rhetoric is notorious for appealing to the racism that still lies latent in many communities in white America. This rhetoric often relies on stereotypes, such as Reagan's reference to "welfare queens" or the "Willie Horton" advertisement associated with the Bush campaign. In the past, only rabid racists like Jesse Helms would try to scare white men with unsubstantiated claims that affirmative action would steal their jobs. But now, even Bob Dole is trying to demonize these programs...
...papers] are important because they illustrate the very dramatic, real nature of HIV-1 infection," Desrosiers said yesterday. "It is not a silent, latent infection...
...involved in the planned redistribution, including blacks who would like to own land but have never been able to do so. If a program of such magnitude is to succeed, the government will have to find ways to advance the rights of the disinherited blacks without touching off the latent anger of die-hard whites. Officials say they hope to avoid giving the impression that they are doing to the whites what whites did to blacks under apartheid: Mandela has pledged publicly that the new law will "do nothing of the sort." While many claims for land taken...
...also rejects the idea that the author's often violent hatred of women was the manifestation of his own latent homosexual urges. Rather, she astutely characterizes him as "a hypersensitive man unable to bring together the male and female counterparts of his personality...