Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contras. Reagan hailed the rebels fighting Nicaragua's Marxist government as "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers" and sent them overt and covert military support. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker, however, immediately abandoned the nigh hopeless goal of supplying them with more guns and bullets and, instead, struck a deal with Congress to provide continued food and housing assistance, pending elections promised by Nicaragua's junta...
...York the instinct to "Garland" the monstrous -- to extenuate brutality and make a victim of the victimizer -- is more attenuated than in the Ivy League. The New York tabloids, the moral voice of the community, are full-throated in their vilification of the monstrous "wolf pack." It is their social betters, those from the helping professions, who have lost their moral compass. It is they who would Garland this attack if they could...
...stringing first and treating later. After all, the monster theory, unlike the rage theory, has the benefit of evidence. What distinguishes these boys is not their anger -- Who is without it? -- but their lack of any moral faculty. Acts of rage are usually followed by reflection and shame. In this case, these characteristics appear to be entirely missing...
...case, regardless of where one stands on the issue, I view Resolution 7S-33 as merely a way of the council assuaging its own moral conscience given the heated discourse that has gone on here in last weeks. When discussed at the Executive Council meeting, someone cynically remarked that this was just a face-saving measure on the part of Joel Hornstein, and that is precisely what it was. Having essentially gone back on its original position, the council still felt it necessary to take what was, in my opinion, a hastily considered statement on a highly complex and nuanced...
Guilt over the ROTC issue cannot be absolved by hiding behind unfounded appeals to constitutionality. Nothing gets resolved that way. After the adoption of the resolution declaring 7S-28 unconstitutional, the anti-ROTC contingent got up and cheered as if they had won some moral victory. But it was a hollow victory indeed. ROTC was not defeated on the basis of its merits--as it should have been--but on the misapplied technicality of constitutionality...