Word: exploitationism
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EXPLOITATION of different people for different reasons occurs in every corner of society. Sometimes it is naked and does not pretend to excuse itself, as in the codified economic slavery of apartheid; sometimes it takes a less overt form, as in the maltreatment of minority groups in both the United...
American society has devoted special energy to perfecting what can be a creatively insidious form of exploitation--advertising. In its worst forms, the advertisement seeks to induce a Pavlovian response of slobbering acquisitiveness through irrelevant, and often exploitative associations: the blonde languishing on the hood of a Lincoln-Continental, or...
Advertising exploits many groups, but generations of male control of the media and the businesses that support it have made the exploitation of women perhaps the most widespread and most ineradicable example. And a whole industry of pornographers takes the principle of tantalizing advertising to its logical conclusion: where an...
Over the years, however, the Crimson has rejected a very small number of advertisements--cases of exploitation so egregious that we decided neither to accept the advertiser's money nor to give him space. Among these ads was an order-blank for the South African government's Krugerrand gold coins...
We rejected the ad with the strong conviction that there is a concrete link between the content of publications like Screw and the economic and physical exploitation of women in America. Right on the reverse side of the subscription ad Screw sent us on a page ripped out from a...