Word: tabooed
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...substantive, meaningful dialogue on the subject. Unfortunately, it seems that the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) and other similar organizations’ commitment to such discussion stops when faced with a real, substantive objection. It is true that throughout history many taboos have been overcome and rightly gained wide acceptance, including women’s suffrage and the interactions of different races. However, it is also painfully obvious that American culture is showing itself far too ready to accept “progressive” and “inclusive?...
Among the pointy letter-loving Harvard crowd, failure is the ultimate taboo. And in this case, this is not the same kind of failure as getting a “B” on paper that you worked on for days. This—more serious—academic setback can have dire consequences...
...protected as free speech and free press (“it cannot be protested”). The first argument is easily disproven. It supposes that mockery, by being different from more severe expressions of racial ill will, is necessarily distinct from them. If this is true, then what taboo bars enjoyment of blackface comedy? The derision inherent in blackface, like that in “Gay or Asian?”, helps acclimatize audiences to a lower level of esteem for a racial minority. In the case of Asian Americans, unkind regard is often accompanied, paradoxically, by a myth that...
...Thani, 53, the Emir of Qatar, has shouldered the political burden and financial cost of sponsoring al-Jazeera. With an estimated 35 million viewers, the network is being imitated across the region. Al-Jazeera has angered Arab governments by giving airtime to rebel movements and freedom advocates and tackling taboo topics like polygamy and apostasy. And Arab opinion has been immeasurably influenced by al-Jazeera's coverage of the Palestinian intifadeh and the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But nothing has made al-Jazeera so famous as the journalistic hospitality it has extended to Osama bin Laden through...