Word: stigmas
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...Right now, there is a stigma against and even a fear of providing abortions in hospitals [much] due to the insidious attitudes of anti-choice doctors and violence against providers," Gilhuly said...
...first brought to the public's attention by the Moynihan Report on the Negro Family in 1965. Liberals like Moynihan who linked the plight of disadvantaged groups to broader problems in society suddenly found themselves silenced by a waves of critics on the Left who furiously objected to the stigma attached to terms like the "underclass" and "social pathology." Precursors to the multiculturalism of the 1990s, these critics rejected liberal arguments that linked "pathological" aspects of ghetto life to economic oppression and isolation. Instead, the report's critics urged a new emphasis on the strengths and virtues of the Black...
...have been a jock for five years now. It has always carried a stigma with it, but never so pronounced as it is now at the "diversity capital of the world." Just because I am what some would call big does not make me stupid. I am shocked about the treatment that some of us "jocks" receive. It may be true that athletics is a good way to get into Harvard, but is that necessarily a bad thing? If we are to be a truly diverse community, we must accept physical as well as intellectual and artistic abilities into...
With due respect, Neil Rudenstine, president of Harvard University, should be ashamed of the revelations by The New York Times that Harvard waived both the application deadline and fee to George Watson, a well-off Black student from New Jersey. As a Black student, I live with the stigma that I got into Harvard because I am black and not because I was "qualified." This burden increases with revelations of special treatment to well-off Blacks applying to the University...
When he basked in the glory of the Gulf War, George Bush declared that the United States had finally kicked the "Vietnam syndrome"--referring to the stigma that was attached to losing the Vietnam war. Many analysts concurred. The Gulf War was supposed to prove that the United States was once again willing to stand up for the principles it held dear: democracy, independence and freedom from aggression...