Word: liberalã
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Rich Halvorson is pretty liberal??for a guy from Idaho. The intensely conservative Christian philosopher is also an actor with plans to take a shot at Hollywood stardom post-graduation, a Sigma Chi, an aspiring male model and a man known to occasionally drink coffee with random homeless strangers at ABP. But his favorite talking point is religion...
...affiliations had changed. It was a sad day for me, a proud Democrat from New York, when I had to admit that I agreed more with my Republican friends whom I had previously considered crazy right-wingers. Frankly, I have been dismayed by some of the “liberal?? rhetoric on campus. I use the quotation marks because some forms of liberalism at Harvard have ceased to mean standing for equality, upholding human rights for all, or fighting against all forms of racism...
With this latest campaign calling for Harvard and MIT to divest from Israel, I feel isolated and alienated from supposedly “liberal?? parts of the University. The people who have signed the petition use the left’s rhetoric and many of them are self-avowed liberals, including MIT Professor Noam Chomsky and Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Brad Epps. It is despicable that professors and House Masters have signed onto this petition. Israel is not perfect and has certainly made mistakes, but if anything, now it needs our support as it fights...
Fong is half Chinese, half Japanese, and his family has been in the U.S. for many generations. He terms his views “ultra-liberal?? and adds that he knows they are somewhat idealistic and come from privilege. But he contends that Harvard, too, is a place of privilege. “If this were somewhere else where people of non-white skin colors had trouble being recognized and being respected—these are issues that are not so prevalent in our community...
...good” of individual autonomy with the “good” of attempting, “because of an unjust history, to reduce inequalities of wealth and power between racial groups.” His conclusion, though based upon a “liberal?? commitment to fighting inequality, is that there are no easy answers: if we can, we ought to create policies that ignore race, but sometimes moral sense demands that we implement policies based...