Word: paternalistic
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...that Hispanics, Asians, gays and foreigners need their own senate seat is also a paternalist slap in the face to those students; it assumes that they need special treatment in order to achieve. Can’t a gay man run on his own merit? Or a Hispanic woman? Of course. For the most part, preferential diversity seats aside, Amherst is a fair place. The Amherst student government is composed of individuals who ran for election and were voted into office on their own individual merit. The student senate may think that it is leveling some phantasmal playing field...
Sandy Batkin, 76, is one such paternalist. He felt he had to sell his Universal Folding Box Co. in Hoboken, N.J., after his heirs made it clear they had no interest in carrying on the business. But he held out until he found a buyer, Workflow Management of Palm Beach, Fla., that would pledge to keep his 165 employees. "I know almost all the employees by name," says Batkin. "I know their families. It was very important to me that I sell to a company that was not going to liquidate and move the business somewhere else...
...also pleased that the council has continued to fund activities in the houses through block grants of $500 to the house committees. Some council members would have liked to review how those grants are to be spent in an unfortunate return to centralized authority. But this entirely paternalist measure was changed for the simpler request of Student Affairs Committee Chair Eric M. Nelson '99 that the committee be informed, even after the fact, of how the grants are used. Still, the houses should not be required to report to the committee at all. Why are the council members any more...
...always more of the last two than the first, the arts too must be politicized; so we cobble up critical systems to show that although we know what we mean by the quality of the environment, the idea of quality in aesthetic experience is little more than a paternalist fiction designed to make life hard for black, female and gay artists...
...Infantry regiment were not given anything in 1863: certainly not victory. The blacks of the 54th were actual men who died actual deaths in a redemptive violence that they sought. The lesson that Glory teaches -- and it is finding an audience -- is this: it was not the Great White Paternalist alone who freed the slaves and made them American citizens. It was also blacks who freed themselves. These were the blacks who enlisted, trained, suffered, endured condescension and insult, disciplined themselves, fought for the right to fight and the opportunity to die in the pursuit of their freedom and manhood...