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Last year, in an Executive Board meeting of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), heated discussion ended in the decision by some members that a palm tree was an offensive image for a poster design. If palm trees offend, Jada Pinkett Smith professing a message of love and tolerance never had a chance...
...stifles academic debate has no purpose. For members of the Harvard community to attack the right of the President of the University to ask questions and pose hypotheses denies students the kind of academic atmosphere that they deserve. Students should not be afraid to say something because it may offend people who disagree with them. For the U.C. to fail to even consider the legislation denies students the opportunity for discussion, questions, and debate about this issue on the floor of the U.C. General Meeting...
Summers asked, "Who wants to do high-powered, intense work?" The answer, he implied, is mostly men. It's easy to see why his remarks would offend women who have made great sacrifices to succeed. But maybe this is where Summers has a good point. If women react to his theory by declaring their commitment to work 80-hour weeks, they're making the same mistake that many men do. By contorting to fit the current system, they're missing an opportunity to reshape it according to their needs. Indeed, Summers also asked if it is right for our society...
...Powell," says Phillips, "because it introduces in middle-class and upper-middle-class white minds a question of a type of affirmative action and preference they hadn't thought about before. It's going to be very difficult for Powell to discuss this in a way that doesn't offend blacks or whites...
While NBC may want to reach religious conservatives who bought up Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series of Armageddon books and saw The Passion in droves, Revelations could also offend some of them. Its heroes are seeking to forestall the Apocalypse--even though for some believers, the end of days, and the establishment of Christ's kingdom, is to be hoped for. (Revelations could become a regular series, in which case ending the world would hurt its syndication chances...