Word: neutralization
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...dead still, in shock and horror. Tom Cruise jumped up on Oprah Winfrey’s neutral-toned couch and rhapsodized about Katie Holmes, shouting, “I’m in love! I’m in love!” Mocking Cruise at this point was like kicking a sleeping dog. Nevertheless, I turned to my friend. “He’s deranged and his career is over,” I said...
...guess there have always been folks out there who believe that education can be a “neutral,” apolitical pursuit—that learning can take place in a vacuum, independent of “reality” and its “problems.” But as the late Brazilian educator Paulo Freire brilliantly argued, the claim that learning should be separate from transforming our world is a political claim itself. It is equally political—yet infinitely more ethical—to make the case as Freire did that learning should ultimately...
...miseducation we all too often accept is not neutral but passive. The administration essentially says that you can take classes here about pressing social dilemmas if you want to, but that’s your own choice—as if we could actually choose to disconnect ourselves from the world in which we live. Sure, we have a required Social Analysis core, but what’s the overwhelmingly popular course in that department? Ec 10, about as consumer-oriented a class as you can get. It relies on the premise that to think logically is to think self...
Others also identified gender neutral bathrooms as a consideration...
...Documentary making, says the amiable Connolly, wearing a green scarf on a cold Melbourne afternoon, is a craft in which "all the bets are off - you stand and fall on the accuracy of your capturing of spontaneous human relationships." Remaining neutral in a world where clan allegiances are paramount made for some of the hardest work of all. Connolly is frank in his assessment of his and Anderson's ability to remain objective as tribal frictions intensified and the harvest's prospects faltered. He confesses the horror the pair privately felt when they heard that the international coffee price looked...