Word: voicelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whitewash a self-styled scapegrace who had so many treacheries and transgressions to confess (though it is to give him credit for confessing so openly to them). If he could be unusually tender toward his enemies, he could be unnaturally negligent of his loves. In his championing of the voiceless, the forgotten, the oppressed, he could conceive irrational and implacable prejudices against those he regarded as Established (No?l Coward, say). And sometimes, by his own admission, he could do the right thing for the wrong reasons, refusing to be straight with someone because he lacked the nerve...
...China will make it more competitive in global markets. But what will happen to the western farming provinces, whose technologies date back to the turn of the century? It's unlikely that the decision-makers in the east will worry much about the fate of hundreds of millions of voiceless peasants; President Suharto and his government probably don't think too much about the economic well-being of the people of East Timor...
...conservatives are persecuted at this liberal hell-hole." True, Harvard got a fairly mild dose of the dread Political Correctness; Harvard's administrators are, thankfully, too smart to go around censoring people still, one faction of conservative students managed to paint itself as battered, beaten-down, eternally voiceless. This powerless bunch later went on to found 57 new conservative organizations and take over the Republican Club...
...solution is imperfect. Some scholars object outright to any government engineering of racial advantage. Other critics note that whites in the newly created districts become a new voiceless minority. A third group grimaces at the gerrymanders spawned when districters create land bridges between geographically dispersed minority members. Nonetheless, the districts were generally accepted as a necessary evil. Their critics from the right risked portrayal as troglodytes. And when Lani Guinier, Clinton's ill-fated candidate for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, entered stage left, having penned articles suggesting some alternatives, the backpedaling President called them "antidemocratic" and "difficult...
...needed a celebrity speaker to raise funds for their legal defense in a censorship case, they did not turn to Jackson or Chavis or Mfume but to Farrakhan, the one black man they felt could fill any hall in town. Wherever he presents himself as "a voice for the voiceless," crowds throng to his orations, typically almost three hours long, for entertainment and moral uplift...