Word: redressing
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...Reaction against affirmative action has been growing for a long time,'' says Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations, the widely cited study of race in the U.S. ``Even among liberals there is a feeling of weariness.'' While accepting that affirmative action may be a redress for centuries of discrimination against blacks and women, Americans have grown suspicious of what it can become in practice. In a TIME/CNN poll of 800 adults taken last month, 77% thought that it sometimes or frequently discriminates against whites. Even among black respondents, 66% answered the same...
...book Culture of Complaint). By now the game is to accuse others of playing the victim card, and then to trump them. Blacks and women having had their turn, it is apparently the moment for white males to enjoy semiofficial permission to feel sorry for themselves-and to demand redress. This is a class war everyone is fighting, and no one is suing for peace. Maybe it's a job for Jimmy Carter...
...question its commitment to a socially progressive agenda. Its charter states that it was founded to "educate and inspire women for full participation in all areas of life." Unfortunately, women have not yet achieved "full participation" in society, and until then, Radcliffe serves an important role in striving to redress the imbalances...
...sure, Clinton has shown flashes of political courage and persistence, most notably in winning passage of NAFTA. But in the exercise of military power, and especially when one leads the world's lone superpower, retreat is contemptible. Consider the two other showcases of horror Clinton pledged to redress before Haiti. "History has shown that you can't allow the mass extermination of people and just sit idly by and watch it happen," said the President about Bosnia. That of course is exactly what we have done. It will be "open season on Americans" if "aggressors, thugs and terrorists . . . conclude that...
...breaking society's rules for what you see as a higher cause. Operation Rescue activists have submitted to arrest for minor charges like trespassing. But they also like to flood the home phone lines of judges who have ruled against them. Their purpose is not to "petition for redress of grievances," as protected by the $ First Amendment; their purpose is to make those judges miserable. And even the larger right-to-life movement opposes efforts to protect abortion clinics with laws that work...