Word: unjustness
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...like us, who will be--start to end these myths of academia, dispel elitist liberalism and turn back to reality. We have to realize both our complicity in the problem and our power to solve it. Racism isn't utterly incurable--it has real, definable causes which are themselves unjust and evil. By ignoring this fact we are committing injuries more grievous than those committed in South Boston, isolating ourselves from the reality we ourselves have created...
...must hold Clinton and Congress responsible for the unjust ban on gays in the military, not Powell. But even if Powell must serve as a symbol for the unjust ban, then he should not be hated for his reasoning. Powell's only crime is pessimism. Instead of pink triangles, perhaps protesters should influence Powell by greeting him with yellow smiley faces...
...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...
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...