Word: neutrals
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...embarrassing that Harvard students can graduate ignorant of major Western authors and philosophers. Harvard boasts as its motto “veritas,” and it should therefore teach students truth, rather than encourage students to remain neutral when confronted with values “significantly different” from those that have shaped the society they are preparing to enter...
Herein lies the problem with Harvard’s value-neutral Core: Western society is better than its alternatives. The “dead white men” whom multiculturalists demean—as if syllabi focusing on the likes of Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald marginalize women and minorities—in fact encourage inquiries that invalidate the grotesque marginalization observed in other societies. Shakespeare, for example, challenges students to discover human truths transcending the perspective of any one ethnic group or gender...
...Bush has described the war on terror from the beginning in Manichaean terms not all that different from Boykin's. "Today, our nation saw evil," he said on Sept. 11, 2001. "Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them," he told the nation nine days later. Boykin may be understandably perplexed about what line he crossed by referring to evil as "a guy called Satan...
...relief." But the Court also decreed that Germany's 16 states were "free to establish the legal basis" for a head-scarf ban. In other words, state legislatures could ban head scarves from public-school classrooms if they felt their presence interfered with the obligation to provide a religiously neutral education. More liberal states are likely to allow teachers to cover their heads, but conservative ones like Bavaria have already announced they will prohibit it. Many Germans feel it's unjust that crucifixes should be removed from classrooms while Muslims are allowed to wear head scarves, even though the hijab...
...slows efforts to reverse the 60 percent unemployment in Iraq, which in turn maintains the pool of disaffection in which the insurgents can recruit. And if they're able to provoke the U.S. into striking out more forcefully against an enemy hiding in plain sight, they could turn more neutral Iraqis against the occupation. Even the terror attacks have that effect, with numerous reports from reporters on the ground suggesting traumatized Iraqis are often inclined to blame the U.S. for failing to protect them from such attacks - or even for being the cause of such attacks...