Word: racism
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Wiener’s thesis seems—at best—implausible. He concocts a conspiracy theory that would make even Mel Gibson’s head spin: that Thernstrom deliberately drummed up charges of racism against himself so that he could come out of the controversy looking like a defender of academic freedom. Wiener suggests that The Crimson played a supporting role in this nefarious scheme by hyping up the allegations against Thernstrom. And according to Thernstrom, the plot paid dividends in 2002, when President Bush appointed the “neocon hero” Thernstrom to serve...
It’s a moment to seize. Larry Summers was hired to “shake things” up at Harvard and move us into the new millennium. This means, among other things, shaking off the vestiges of sexism, racism, and classism that are still very much present here, where existence as an undergraduate means having to deal with the legacy of a very, very old boys club. It’s not always easy...
...Finn’s appropriateness for elementary and high school curricula. Critics may no longer find it as “trashy and vicious” as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported) in 1885, but many still echo the concerns about racism the NAACP first presented in the 1950s—particularly with respect to Huck’s traveling companion, the runaway slave...
...without seeing the libraries, schools, hospitals, and roads constructed by the British that are now left to decay by a government whose corruption everyone seems to understand. The ultimate question to be asked and today answered typically in the starry-eyed sort of way is: does this excuse the racism of colonial rule...
...WORRIED ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM MAKING A COMEBACK IN GERMANY? I do not think that racism or anti-Semitism has a chance to come back in Germany. But--and I emphasize this--due to our history but also generally speaking, we will go in and most strongly fight any such moves...