Word: pariahize
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...such a delicate public discussion it is dangerous to risk having words taken out of context, ideas abbreviated into unrecognizable and harmful sound bites. They are fearful that to take up the issue at all is to run the risk of being branded an anti-Semite and a pariah. If the issue is used simply to identify enemies, few will step forward...
David Turner was under siege last week. A junior at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and editor in chief of the weekly Justice, the student newspaper, he had become a pariah on campus. His phone rang around the clock with irate calls from students and alumni denouncing him as a "monster" and an "anti-Semite." His car was defaced and he was threatened with bodily harm. Some 2,000 copies of Justice were stolen and presumably destroyed, and when the issue was reprinted, 200 students rallied in protest and a guard had to be assigned to ensure the paper...
...playing a major role in promoting Islamic terror around the world. But there still hasn't been any real proof offered: no reputable eyewitnesses, no photographs, no documents. Nevertheless, the U.S. last week put its official stamp on the proposition, adding the country to its short list of pariah states sponsoring terrorism. The State Department declared that "evidence currently available" showed that Sudan allows its territory to be used as a sanctuary and training ground for all manner of Muslim fundamentalist and radical organizations. The announcement followed news reports that linked two Sudanese diplomats in New York City...
...blacks, the long-awaited vote will formally end the humiliation, injustice and injury of the past four decades and complete the dismantling of apartheid, that pervasively dysfunctional experiment in political and social engineering. The balloting will allow the pariah state to regain a place in the community of nations. And the voters will almost certainly reward Mandela's stoic struggle by conferring on him the leadership of his country...
...many hit "women's pictures" (Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias, Fried Green Tomatoes), the story was considered the star. And in most of them, the starring actresses were in Hollywood's pariah category: women over 40. "It takes 20 years to make someone a good actor," says SAG's Kathryn Swink. "And when women reach their potential, they're shut...