Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grievance, which will be filed through the custodial union to the University, will cite "unjust discipline" as the major complaint, the crew chiefs said...
Many are quick to blame Harvard Real Estate for disenfranchising Cambridge's already-disenfranchised homeless community. However, even though the cage is ultimately unjust, Harvard Real Estate made a considerable effort to address the concerns of the homeless. Far from being malicious or hasty, the decision to build the cage was a response to serious problems arising from the use of the heating grates...
Without such fictitious excuses clouding the issue, it is clear that the decision is based on an unjust principle of collective punishment that is applied to the homeless. Law-abiding homeless citizens who want to use the grates in peace are being punished for the actions of others...
...even homelessness groups have accepted the unjust logic of collective punishment. DeLong, who was once homeless herself, says that she and other workers pleaded with the troublemakers to stop harassing people: "We told them, you're going to lose this...
...intention to portray Harvard Real Estate as an immoral, heartless organization. On the contrary, Harvard has demonstrated a significant level of concern for the homeless. Still, this does not make the cage acceptable. It remains a fundamentally unjust solution that discriminates against the homeless. And it illustrates the all-too-common tendency to treat the homeless as pests, not the human beings that they...