Word: disingenuousã
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...been honest about this when talking climate change. The environmental movement remains a carefully-positioned velvet revolution in which nobody will be hurt, nobody will give anything up, and everyone will be carried upwards in the universal tide of a post-carbon society. This narrative is not only disingenuous??it is untrue. It is a falsehood largely borne on the shoulders of environmentalists, who, delicately careful to make platforms seem as palatable as possible, have twisted over backward in order to obfuscate and excise the sometimes jarring side-effects of comprehensive environmentalism...
...president of FAIR, Kent Greenfield, said he thought Clement was “disingenuous?? in his response...
...wanting to arbitrarily restrict “scientific inquiry” or to selfishly limit the “understanding of human diseases.” Phrases such as these take the debate outside of the confines of stem cells and place it in territory that is either disingenuous?? the accusation of being against “progress”—or entirely demagogical—the accusation that opponents of stem cell research are against people such as Christopher Reeve walking again...
College administrators say the ART has largely failed to live up to that role, though ART Executive Director Robert Orchard says such complaints are “disingenuous?? because of the structure Harvard imposes on his company. Both sides agree that the relationship between the professional theater company and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) is complicated by the arrangement...
...Likewise, BLSA members have advocated greater diversity in the student body and faculty at the Law School. But that very diversity normally brings individuals with unpopular views into the academic community, precisely the views the proposed speech code would attempt to silence. Thus, the call for diversity is actually disingenuous??what speech code advocates really want is a greater representation in their community of individuals who hold the same, not differing, opinions as them. Just as important, when self-identified victims set the rules for acceptable thought and speech, when only the most ‘sensitive?...