Word: moralizes
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...Harvard students not in support of the strike should refrain from charging their classmates with silliness. This attitude betrays a lack of intellectual engagement with the discourse of protest and institutional change. This behavior is unbecoming of a Harvard student. A decision not to support PSLM on intellectual or moral grounds is noble; a dismissal of their actions is both ignoble and unjust. It smacks of the same disgusting arrogance with which the University treats students involved in the presidential search to the living wage campaign. We can do better than to treat each other that...
...billboard at a Sacramento intersection, road-to-Damascus-style, on the way to a movie shoot, he thought to himself, ‘Son of a bitch, he is right.’” After being called “a political hypocrite and a moral coward” by one of his arch rivals in 1958, Goldwater shoots back, “schoolyard-style,” that his opponent should “look into the mirror and see who is the coward.” And as adoring crowds chant, “We Want...
...protestors have further eroded their moral authority with unreasonable demands and an unseemly self-interest. PSLM cheapened its legitimate requests by its call for the creation of a board—not through administrative appointment, but via unspecified means—to wield policy-making power over the University’s wage structure. The group demanded that the board include workers, union representatives, faculty, members of PSLM, and “an administrator.” It is ludicrous to expect the University to cede permanent control over its wages to an outside board, especially one that enfranchises...
...about dialogue. Forcibly occupying Massachusetts Hall is not an effective way to protest economic inequality at the University. PSLM accuses Harvard of refusing to listen to its concerns, but it has not behaved in a manner that merits the University’s respect. It has given the moral high ground back to the administration...
...Achmat's moral example goes a lot further, sometimes to the consternation of his colleagues in the Treatment Action Group. The 38-year-old gay filmmaker is HIV-positive, and his doctors have urged him to begin taking antiretrovirals, which are affordable for someone in Achmat's economic bracket. But he refuses to take the drugs until they're available to all South African AIDS patients through the public health system. Friends and colleagues have urged him to relent, because he's too important to the campaign. He almost did last year - but balked at the last minute, unable...