Word: stigmas
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...action prevents its defenders from speaking frankly about what they have done, about what they had to do, to bring diversity. They should not think their silence goes unnoticed by students, by the general public, or by blacks. Their refusal to discuss or even identify the central difficulty is stigma enough by itself...
...Landing in the bottom third of the class is something to which stigma perhaps rightly attaches," Jancu wrote in the student memo...
...forces that perpetuate sexual inequality are far more powerful than those that maintain racial inequality," Carolus said. "Everyone knows it is not okay to stand up and say, 'I am a racist.' There is not the same stigma against sexism...
...push for AIDS awareness among schoolchildren inspired by Ryan White has run into stiff resistance from conservative parents who don't want any discussion of sex, safe or otherwise, in the schools. The blatant discrimination that AIDS sufferers faced in the 1980s may have eased somewhat, but the stigma has not gone away. Witness the meanspirited provision Congress passed last week requiring armed-services personnel with HIV to be discharged from the military, even if they are otherwise in perfect health. President Clinton is expected to sign the defense authorization bill despite this rider, but has made it clear...
Some professors say there is no stigma attached to teaching a class that is considered...