Word: maye
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Last Wednesday, conservative organizations hosted a "Coming Out" party to celebrate their political ideology. The event was met with vociferous protest by the Queer Resistance Front, who picketed outside with posters accusing President Ronald Reagan with murderous negligence in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. While the protestors may have exhibited a degree of over-sensitivity, the organizers of the event exhibited an abundance of immaturity and plain stupidity...
...have been marginalized due to their right-leaning beliefs. While it is admittedly possible that some conservatives have sometimes been mistreated at the hands of over-zealous lefties, there has hardly been an outbreak of violence against Republicans, nor has anyone sabotaged the presses of the Salient. The Faculty may be predominantly liberal, but Edmund Burke remains on the curriculum nonetheless. In short, aside from some light-hearted whining, conservatives can't really complain of any legitimate persecution...
...Coming out" is the experience of declaring one's sexual orientation to friends and family. It is an act that always demands great bravery and often results in tragic consequences. "Coming out" is not part of any radical political agenda. Whatever qualms conservatives may have about the gay rights movement, they surely cannot object to homosexuals sharing their identity with others...
...Those who gathered outside of the Conservative Coming Out Dinner may have gone a bit far in essentially blaming Ronald Reagan for millions of AIDS deaths, but their outrage is understandable. There is nothing about conservatism that requires boorishness. It is a shame that the people organizing last week's dinner couldn't recognize that distinction. The dinner and those who attended without reservation are an embarrassment to both conservatives and liberals of goodwill...
Seventy miles west of Cambridge, deep in a hardwood forest near the Massachusetts hamlet of Petersham, there is a Harvard classroom without walls, and four Harvard students who may set foot in Harvard Yard for the first time at Commencement...