Word: offenders
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...United States is not a perfect society. There are many practices common today that may offend one or more groups in our communities. The point to stress is that changes in policy cannot be forced by censorship. They must be implemented with majority approval and compromise. Otherwise, the opposing factions will only further capitalize on their instant stardom...
...decade-long offensive against campus liberalism, the staff of the independent student weekly Dartmouth Review has managed to offend women, blacks, Native Americans and homosexuals. Last week, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Review sank to a new low by printing Hitler's boast that "by warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work." The Dartmouth campus erupted with indignation. Though editor in chief Kevin Pritchett claimed that some unidentified culprit had sneaked the quote into print, the Review's president and two other staff members quit. Outraged students supported by faculty members organized...
Bush Administration officials are seriously considering freezing a $300 million aid package to Violeta Chamorro's government in Nicaragua. Reason: Nicaragua refuses to withdraw a suit filed in the World Court charging that the U.S.-backed contra war violated international law. The cautious Chamorro doesn't want to offend the powerful Sandinistas, who filed the case in 1984 and continue to hold control over the people's army...
...things they've done in the past have been in poor taste and are not representative of mainstream conservative thought. They often go too far. We don't offend people for the sake of offending," Vergonis added...
Prosecutors may well get a jury to agree that some of the pictures by % Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS last year, could offend people in Sodom, much less Cincinnati. The more complex question is whether such pictures can move people in other ways. The future of American art may depend on how the jury answers that...