Word: racisms
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...Bethesda, Md. Smith, who in 1960 moderated the first-ever televised presidential debate (between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon), believed that journalists should take stands on some issues. He left CBS when CEO William Paley barred him from punctuating a 1961 documentary on racism in Birmingham, Ala., with the Edmund Burke quote "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing...
...appalled to read Ruth R. Wisse’s neo-fascist rant (Opinion, “Standing Up for Israel,” Feb. 25). I shall not mention the incoherence of her arguments. I shall not mention her use of hate-mongering rhetoric to mask racism as ‘Jewish pride.’ No—for the real issue at stake is: to what standard should we hold Israel when it comes to human rights...
...firebombed synagogues and Jewish elementary schools in France and the racist sermons of imams in Britain as well as in the vicious words of the Arab world’s regimes. It is also in conference rooms in Durban, South Africa, where the farcically-named World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance was turned into an anti-Semitic gadfest by Muslim countries last fall...
...they run the gamut of all social classes. In the West End of London, rich playboys from the gulf states are staples of the clubbing scene. In rundown mill towns in the north of England, by contrast, thousands of native Pakistanis struggle in an environment where jobs are scarce, racism is rampant and arranged marriages are the norm...
...business out of on-campus filming. The school has a department that deals with production companies and earns $250,000 each year from licensing fees. Movies that film on the USC campus are not permitted to include any gratuitous language, violence or nudity; USC also screens for sexism and racism. But the Harvard of Hollywood will not permit use of its name in movies—unlike the real Harvard, which allows free use by any movie or book...