Word: scension
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting that "black students are again disrupting the campus." And he attacked teachers who condoned or defended the disruption. "There are many whites who do not apply to blacks the same standard of morality and behavior they apply to whites," he said. "This is an attitude of moral conde scension that every self-respecting Negro has a right to resent-and does resent." As a semanticist, Hayakawa said, he wished to comment on "the intellectually slovenly habit, now popular among whites as well as blacks, of denouncing as racist those who oppose or are critical of any Negro tactic...
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