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...column “Albert Speer at Harvard” was insulting and morally obscene. To compare the Cuban regime with that of the Nazis—or even with that of Stalin’s Soviet Union—is to show the worst kind of specious moral equivalence...
...commission and the authority of the Constitutional Court does not interest him. In this campaign to stay in power, he has striven to make himself appear above the process and therefore above the law. The reasoning that the love of the people should trump the rule of law is specious and dangerous. "I wouldn't say reform will be dead," says Thepchai Yong, a columnist for the Nation newspaper, "but you could say it's in critical condition...
...lagging behind academically, we can't call ourselves equal. Now that our civil rights are legally secure and many of us have become prosperous, we need to erase every last, lingering scintilla of doubt about black intellectual ability. It doesn't matter that such beliefs are totally specious and rooted in racism. They influence decision makers in colleges, the government and corporations. If the powers that be believe in their hearts that blacks aren't as smart as everyone else (as many of them do--even if they would never admit it), we will be patronized, not treated with respect...
...lagging behind academically, we can't call ourselves equal. Now that our civil rights are legally secure and many of us have become prosperous, we need to erase every last, lingering scintilla of doubt about black intellectual ability. It doesn't matter that such beliefs are totally specious and rooted in racism. They influence decision makers in colleges, the government and corporations. If the powers that be believe in their hearts that blacks aren't as smart as everyone else (as many of them do - even if they would never admit it), we will be patronized, not treated with respect...
Masters' arguments against UKA, while perhaps originally more grounded in student safety, are now even more specious than their opponents'. For years, Masters said they feared access would cut down on the number of locked, heavy doors between their charges and the scary outside world, potentially opening their Houses to unwanted persons and crime...