Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sociologist does not consider that it is not affirmative action which is flawed, but rather the rationale provided by some of its supporters. The Jewish student and Beer are right in rejecting any notion that the current generation of white Americans have a responsibility to repay Black Americans for past injustices. Even those Americans whose forefathers were in the United States during Jim Crow and slavery cannot be held accountable for the discrimination of their ancestors, in which they played no part...
...issue is not so simple, and the case that will be brought this week in Santa Barbara by personal injury lawyer Melvin Belli shows why. His argument rests on the notion that companies which manufacture a product ought to inform their customers of the dangers of using that product. The question is not whether smokers are responsible for their choice to smoke cigarettes. Of course they are; they're dying prematurely as a consequence of that choice. The issue is whether corporations are responsible for honestly advertising and labeling the products they manufacture...
...better. On the other hand, CLS does not strike like a band of intellectual terrorists from the fringes of society to smash legal and cultural icons. It tries to use two apparently contradictory strategies at the same time: fighting for someone's rights while fighting against the notion of property rights that is the basis of our legal system...
...rights is paradoxical. Not all CLS people share the same radical social vision of a society with anarchy built into it, of a state with revolution built into it, but this idea is implicit in their synthesis of radical theory and legal practice. A possible analogy for this notion of internal revolution is that the kind of confrontation and dialogue that goes (or tries to go) on between the government of Harvard University and student protestors should be happening continually at all levels of political life and that there should be laws that give both sides equal bargaining power...
...Crimson then flails away at the idea of moral equivalence, the heretical notion that human rights practices should be judged on one scale. The editorial asserts that this is simply meant to "confuse the issue," and Hirschorn asserts that the approach is a ploy, to distract from the fact that conservatives can not argue the issue of divestment on its own merits. To the contrary, the Salient has printed lengthy, reasoned articles on why divestment from South Africa is a counter-productive gesture, but they have never elicited any response. The divestment movement here is hardly concerned with the effectiveness...