Word: odiously
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...proper action is not to seek to bar the speaker's presence at the university, nor to shout him or her down, any more than it is to storm the library and burn or deface offending books. The proper response is to hear the speaker out, no matter how odious or tedious the arguments may be. Opposition to the speaker's views can be expressed through picketing and pamphleting before the speech; through question and argument from the floor, when that is invited; through subsequent debate, perhaps with opposing speakers or panels of critics, or through written rebuttals...
...factors other than merit were taken into account in, for example, getting a job." First of all, the fact that many employers often consider criteria unrelated to the performance of the job is no invitation to require the addition of racial status to that list. Second, what is especially odious about reverse discrimination is not that it is just another example of an employer considering "factors other than merit" according to his or her personal preference, but that it includes a government effort to standardize those perferences in a particular...
...this context is obscene. From the school that developed napalm and Henry Kissinger, comes Caspar Weinberger, an anti-soviet war mongerer who bears direct responsibility for the deaths of thousands in EI Salvador, the invasion of Grenada, the murderous contra raids on Nicaragua, and the bloody mess in Lebanon. Odious though his views may be, we protested Weinberger for his deeds. Apparently the Crimson would prefer to wash the blood of Weinberger's hands and accord him the same courtises as any run-of-the mill right-wing ideologue. What's next? An "ADA rating" for Klaus Barbie...
...other... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." (Thomas Jefferson...
When Israel pushes to become a strong junior partner in arming repressive U.S.-backed Third World dictatorships, it draws international condemnation. Economic ties with South Africa begin to look increasingly odious...