Word: un-american
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...Sciences has been reluctant to do so, think Harvard should take a stand and dissociate itself from a discriminatory program. Until the military allows. Americans to serve in ROTC, Harvard shouldn't support that program. The University should send a message that intolerance is unacceptable, that it is un-American...
Opposing expansion is not anti-capitalist and un-American. On the contrary, it's un-American to let a national treasure be devalued right in front of our noses. Some say expansion is good because it gives people like Florida Marlin Scott Pose a shot at being a major league baseball player. But how much is that worth, when teams half-seriously consider giving a tryout to a Harvard sophomore who can't hit a curve ball...
...must take some of the blame ourselves, we ordinary, middle-level citizens. For years we voted for men who promised to battle Big Government, also known as a "cancer," un-American and inimical to Our Way of Life. And they did, these brave men, these Reagans and Bushes: they cut and they trimmed. They deregulated. They privatized. They hacked at entitlements and skirmished with "waste" . . . Until nothing was left...
Jewish support for Israel is taken as a sign of dual loyalty, or of disloyalty to America. Does that mean that Arab-Americans who feel a personal stake in the Palestinians' fate would also be considered "un-American" if they opposed U.S. policies favorable to Israel? Or that African-Americans who call Africa their heritage are not "true Americans...
...McCarthyism could be made only by people who either don't know or don't wish to remember what the Senator from Wisconsin and his pals actually did to academe in the '50s: the firings of tenured profs in mid- career, the inquisitions by the House Committee on Un-American Activities on the content of libraries and courses, the campus loyalty oaths, the whole sordid atmosphere of persecution, betrayal and paranoia. The number of conservative academics fired by the lefty thought police, by contrast, is zero. There has been heckling. There have been baseless accusations of racism. And certainly there...