Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Field's portrayal of the coalition's actions is unjust and sound somewhat like a parental guilt trip: "[the coalition's] members interrupted Junior Parents Weekend in a confrontational manner, showing little respect to the many parents that had travelled from around the world to spend time with their children," [the coalition] preferring to intimidate students, parents, and faculty members in public arenas rather than to explain themselves in a civil manner." The program on diversity was not interrupted; the coalition members allowed the discussion to proceed naturally. They had simply presented the issue of diversity on this campus...
...there are reasons for pause. We have built up in this country since the 1930s a system of employment relationships, guaranteed by law and guided by business practices that have become norms. The state courts have essentially codified entire areas of workplace law having to do with everything from unjust dismissals through areas of labor-management ) relationships such as family and medical leave, which many of the states pioneered before the federal legislation was passed. Many people think this system needs fundamental rethinking...
...letter to The Crimson, Ali said it was demeaning to suggest that inflated grades were given to Blacks from "some benevolent white teaching fellow or professor." Minority students should and do "earn their grades," Ali continued. Thus, according to Ali, such a practice of white benevolence would be fundamentally unjust and unnecessary, as well as demeaning to minority students. I agree completely...
Affirmative action is mandated discrimination; that alone makes the program unjust. What makes affirmative action an even more insidious practice is its effect on its own recipients. Through the implementation of special treatment based on race, it engenders severe self-doubt in the hearts and minds of the very people who are supposedly benefiting from it. Shelby Steele, in The content of Our Character, eloquently makes this very point...
Mansfield called overall inflation a process of "debasing the currency" in academics. "It's unjust. It buries and obscures necessary distinctions, of academic judgment," he said...