Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victims. Says Michael Nesline of the activist group ACT UP: "We're fighting for people for whom the question of prevention is a moot point." In this regard, the movement found allies in conservative politicians who were unable to support "safe sex" education but saw AIDS research as politically neutral...
...recognize that the Soviet threat has been greatly exaggerated is not to commit the sin of "moral equivalence"; Western self-criticism about the phobias of the cold war does not imply a neutral judgment about the Soviet system. Quite the contrary: it is precisely because that system is such an abomination against basic human aspirations, against human nature itself, that much of what the West called "Soviet power" was actually Soviet weakness, and the instruments of that power could never have been all they were cracked...