Word: moralizations
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...this precisely the "same logic" that led to the stigmatization of Germany as a "nation of perpetrators?" For non-Germans, this screed cries out for decoding. The unspoken logic is this: if the Jews were as bad, or worse, than our forefathers, then they have no special moral claim on us. The original Holocaust was invented not by us, but by them; so let them stop pointing their fingers at us. If we are criminals, so are they. But if they aren't, how can we be? Thus, the score is evened, and we are (almost) out of the moral...
Corporate America has beaten down the ordinary American worker for too long, and Greider believes that these victimized workers are fed up and ready to assert their power. In his new book The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, Greider insists that there is no question of the widespread discontent among American employees; instead, as Grieder explained in an interview while in Cambridge promoting his book, “the question is whether people today have the sort of core courage and dedication to take on the big boys and stay with it as long...
...moral imperative of gaining Yang’s liberty is self-evident. But as Fu’s remark subtly underscores, his case is larger than one brave man’s ordeal in a PRC dungeon. It involves the value of American citizenship and permanent residency—or, more precisely, the degree to which the State Department defends citizens and U.S. nationals from injustice, harassment and arbitrary detention abroad...
...well-meaning as some of these activists claim to be, their plans and petitions are unlikely to bring back the wild and wooly past of Cambridge. But they will ensure that their proponents enjoy returns on their homes that would make many Wall Street investors weep. Taking the moral high ground in restricting all development is a farce—and, I think, little more than a blatant grab for returns on assets at the expense of those with the least ability to pay. It’s not about making Cambridge better; it’s about making homeowners...
...Moral people can disagree about the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Moral people can argue over territory, over sovereignty and over borders. But moral people cannot condone suicide bombings. Suicide bombings, which specifically target innocent civilians, are always wrong. No moral person could possibly say that Nava Appelbaum or the hundreds of Israeli victims of terror like her, deserved to die. One would hope that everyone, certainly everyone here at Harvard, would agree on that...