Word: unpopular
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Even if voters did not support every item on Ronald Reagan's foreign policy agenda--such as his unpopular alliance with the Nicaraguan contras--they were reassured by his stalwart defense of America's national security. Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and the recent misbehavior of the Soviet Union have reminded voters of the need for strong leadership and firm convictions. The amusing image of Michael Dukakis test-driving an army tank during his 1988 campaign is a powerful illustration of the Democrats' failure to offer either...
Unfortunately, Hann isn't the ideal martyr for the First Amendment cause. His offense consisted of more than just unpopular political opinions--he shouted racist, anti-semitic and anti-gay epithets at a first-year student. Worse yet, he was drunk at the time, giving Brown more solid grounds to indeed treat his as a disciplinary case...
...life was slowly being snuffed out. So in 1975, he organized a rural workers' union. To stop the deforestation, union members and their families formed human blockades around areas scheduled to be cleared. These Gandhiesque acts, called empates, helped save thousands of acres but also made Mendes unpopular with landowners and local officials...
...involved in Southeast Asia 20 years before American soldiers began to die there in large numbers. From Truman to Nixon, U.S. Presidents propped up undemocratic and unpopular South Vietnamese regimes and lied about the extent of American participation in the war. In the 1960s these immoral policies, justified only by anticommunist rhetoric and concerns about U.S. prestige and hegemony, composed the framework of anti-war protest...
...precisely because Defeat Homophobia represents those long persecuted by society that its stand is also wrong. It has leaped to the defense of an employee action it should instead disavow. Defeat Homophobia is short-sighted in advocating the suppression of unpopular opinions. The dispute is made even easier by the fact that the poster in question had nothing to do with AALARM's opinions on homosexuality; its opposition to UHS funding for abortion is well within legitimate campus discourse...