Word: thoughtlessness
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...bottom, Bush's appeal to delay much-needed aid to Israel's Soviet immigrants is thoughtless and counter-productive. Witholding loan guarantees to build homes for refugees and placing preconditions on peace negotiations is both a political and a humanitarian mistake. It is Bush's stubbornness--not American support for Soviet immigrants--which could disrupt next month's peace conference and leave one million refugees homeless...
There isn't much left to say about PC that hasn't been hashed out time and time again. This much is clear--it's time to stop the antagonistic name-calling. By now, everyone should understand the dangers of thoughtless PC intolerance. By now, everyone should understand the dangers of thoughtless anti-PC intolerance...
...critique is not new. Until recently, however, nearly all the dissidents have sneered and carped from on high, dismissing not just the thoughtless, ugly way suburbs have developed, but also the very hopes and dreams of those who would live there. Today, for the first time, the most articulate, ! convincing critics of American suburbia are sympathetic to suburbanites and are proposing a practical cure...
...Kloske and Schwarzkopf cases indicate that Americans need not fear bureaucracy as much as Weber did. Disagreements between officials indicate that they do care about the correctness of the regulations they administer. Public debate shows that bureaucracy is a living organism rather than a monolithic, thoughtless machine...
...Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) has endured many thoughtless and misguided criticisms in its brief history, yet none so disappointing as the condemnation from the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel of April 9. Disappointing because the Hillel claims to represent one segment of the Judeo-Christian moral and ethical tradition upon which our society and many others are based. The very idea of homosexuality is anathema to both the Jewish faith and AALARM's mandate to uphold traditional American values. Therefore, it has grown uncomfortably obvious that AALARM, in this instance, is the more sincere advocate...