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Delivering the keynote address at a local two-day conference last weekend, the feminist lawyer made some hard to dispute arguments about pornography, saying that "it institutionalizes a subhuman, second class, victimized status for women...
According to the report, at least 8,961 people disappeared during those years, many of the victims vanishing after the military took power in a 1976 coup. Large numbers were tortured to death in "subhuman" makeshift centers that lacked ventilation, plumbing and other amenities, where jailers used methods, such as prolonged outdoor burial up to the neck, that were "unknown in other parts of the world." Alfonsin thanked the commission for its "hard, painful, heroic work" but did not indicate whether he would prosecute or even release the names of those accused of the crimes. The 60,000 citizens...
...editorial, and others who feel similarly, fail entirely to understand the scope of the problem It is no "bad taste" to degrade other people, nor is it "bad taste" to encourage vilent conquest as heterosexual intercourse In racist literature it is standard to portray the persecuted as bestial or subhuman to Nazis, Jews were "vermin," to the KKK Blacks are "apes." Such calculated dehumanization is essential to carrying out violence without guilty conscience. The Pi's references to women as "pigs" and "slobbering bovines" are not even remotely humorous, nor just in "bad taste"--they are dangerous...
Feckless, flashy Lord Erroll was a leader of the British gentry that had settled in Happy Valley near Nairobi in the 1920s and 1930s seeking the openly hedonistic existence that was denied them at home. Unobserved except by the black servants whom they regarded as subhuman, the nobs did as they pleased. Lord Erroll's specialty was seducing married women. "To hell with husbands," was a favorite saying. "And to cuckold a man carelessly, while slapping him on the back or borrowing a fiver, added to his pleasure," Fox notes. Lord Erroll's first wife, Lady Idina, Countess...
...take her to the park for a run. As he drove off, a bomb planted under the car exploded; Pringle survived but one of his legs was amputated. On a visit to the hospitalized Chelsea victims, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher condemned the attacks as "cold, callous, brutal and subhuman...