Word: unamerican
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...disgusts me so much about the 'morality' seeping out of the ground around our feet is that it would deny the legitimacy of differentness ... whatever view does not conform to these [New Right] views is by definition relativistic, negative, secular, immoral, against the family, anti-free enterprise, unAmerican. What nonsense. What dangerous, malicious nonsense...
...avoid it whenever possible. The philosophical swells of ancient Greece thought work was degrading; they kept an underclass to see to the laundry and other details of basic social maintenance. That prejudice against work persisted down the centuries in other aristocracies. It is supposed, however, to be inherently unAmerican. Edward Kennedy likes to tell the story of how, during his first campaign for the Senate, his opponent said scornfully in a debate: "This man has never worked a day in his life!" Kennedy says that the next morning as he was shaking hands at a factory gate, one worker leaned...
...m.p.h. speed limit is said to save annually. Admits Colorado State Representative Bob Stephenson: "Money drives this issue." Perhaps. Yet it is mostly the myth that citizens have some divine right to barrel down the highway unfettered by law or prudence that makes a good idea seem dangerously unAmerican...
...deny consumers in this country the right to buy quality, fuel-efficient cars at a reasonable price is unAmerican. Foreign automakers are busy filling the demand for such cars, while Detroit clamors for more protectionism...
...over the sink-or-swim school techniques that Americanized earlier immigrants. Says Awilda Orta, director of New York City's office of bilingual education: "People who feel good about their past heritage will be more productive citizens." But critics regard bilingual education as expensive, inefficient and above all unAmerican. Says Diane Ravitch of Columbia University's Teachers College: "There are cases of third-generation Puerto Ricans in bilingual classes. That just doesn't make sense...