Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kwan points out, many Americans are neutral on abortion, in that a large majority (69%) think that abortion is "the wrong thing to do," but that the government does not have "any business preventing a women from having an abortion." Kwan concludes that "Americans are reluctant to impose their morals on the great public." But we do this all the time--they're called laws. The logic here seems to say, 'don't like abortion? Then don't have one.' If we extend this line of logic, we would find ourselves saying, 'Don't like murder? Then don't murder...
...United States has no moral integrity. For over 200 years it has inculcated its citizens with lies and pipe dreams about a nation of "immigrants." It tends to disregard the millions of Africans brought as cargo, the millions of Native Americans who had occupied the land for centuries before the first European arrived and the millions of Latinos whose forbears slept one night and woke up the next day as a people oppressed by the United States...
Instead of looking at inner-cities as colonies to be tamed and exploited, white people must wade in the water and challenge the systemic and personal racism which has retarded the spiritual and moral growth of the nation and destroyed urban centers. The search for enlightenment must replace the surge of repression if the United States is to strive and thrive in the next century...
...staff members argue independently but with one voice that "a new cynicism has arisen," threatening belief, humanity, civilization and patriotism. The writers of Peninsula deserve praise for their industriousness as well as their moral seriousness, if not for their accuracy and understanding. They have chosen a subject that is simply too large to get a hold of, and in doing so, they have cheapened many of the causes they had hoped to champion...
...Clintonites have to justify their different stances toward the authoritarian government the U.S. has decided to embrace as a partner in trade (China) and the authoritarian government the U.S. has not (Cuba). What complex axiom of foreign policy justifies this hypocrisy? Economic expedience perhaps, but certainly not moral conviction. The administration must explain the discrepancy between its two contrasting policies not just so that it can avoid the embarrassment of a hostile international community, but more importantly, because it is the promise of American democracy to aim higher than our neighbors' low criterion of convenience...