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...precisely the racism of "clerical inefficiency" that is the hardest to pin down and the hardest to combat. There is no recognizable ill-will, nor is there any overt discrimination that can be attacked. But the end result is the same: A repressed minority group continues to be repressed...
...some food and a place to rest for the night. She told us that since our presence seemed to frighten the girl, we might as well leave. The three men were now standing and talking, two of them pinning the arms of the third behind his back. The overt violence was under control. The woman helped the girl to her apartment, and we left as she had asked...
HARVARD STUDENTS, like most Americans, have come to think of the Indochina War as a nightmare safely past, now that overt American combat there is ended. But American aid and munitions continue to pour into the coffers of Saigon dictatorship, just as the Nixon administration aids its political bedfellows in Chile, Greece, Brazil, South Korea, the Philippines, and the Middle East. In any of these regions an increase of popular resistance to U.S.-supported oppression could cause the government to drag us into new counterrevolutionary intervention. This continual threat of war means that now, as with Dow Chemical...
...should rightfully be called rape. For in order to enforce dominance, agression must be employed, be it physical or psychological. I shudder to think of the number of rapes that probably occur on this very campus every day, to think of the numberless forced into submission, thereby making "actual," "overt," "illegal" rape by their partners unnecessary. Harvard males are not usually driven to the streets to find outlet for their agressive desires; they have outlets for dominance, whether in sexual intercourse itself or in a future as a successful professional person, with the option of a busing the power attached...
...then, by definition, someone well-adjusted can't be a social critic when it comes to sexual politics or to any other issue. Defining psychological health to mean merely the overt acceptance of social convention defines radicals automatically as emotionally upset while paying little attention to personal feelings as a basis for determining health or disturbance...