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Vegetarianism as an ideology is nothing new, but lately the practice has seemed trendily righteous. Perhaps owing to Harvard’s penchant for Hollywoodisms, everywhere I turn I find a vegetarian, or several of them...
...Here’s where students like me start to get righteous. Ulrich, the 300th anniversary university professor, and her fellow Faculty members need to begin by responding to their critics. Throughout this tidal wave of punditry about Summers’ resignation—punditry that has effectively dragged my university through the dirt for two weeks—professors have said zilch about Summers’ managerial failings. They have failed in defending the image of Harvard, allowing critical and inaccurate opinions to run rampant...
...some abortion foes, this represents moral courage; to others, a righteous, and reckless, act of grandstanding. Some women?s rights activists saw an appalling indifference to the physical and emotional trauma suffered by victims of sexual crimes. Others saw an opportunity. And so here is where things get really interesting...
...another over real or imagined slights - shouting like a mogul at a gopher, and then (maybe) feeling a little remorse for lowering the level of civic dignity. The movie may seem nuts to outsiders, but to lots of Angelenos, it?s their prejudice and their conscience in a righteous scream fest. A parable that plays like reality...
...group Born Against’s indignation over NYC brocore band Sick of It All’s label-enforced censorship led to an hour-long radio debate. In a polarization that haunts hardcore to this day, SOIA came across as bonehead sell-outs, and Born Against as self-righteous aesthetes.But feuds rarely reach such lofty abstractions, centering more often on clothing styles and record sales. Most hilariously, the dude from Fall Out Boy ridiculed the singer of the Killers for wearing too much makeup. Emo boy, methinks thou dost protest too much!Contemporary rap music has perfected this combative...