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Israeli secularists, who far outnumber religious adherents, often attack this quid pro quo. "Religious law infringes on my basic freedoms," says a Hebrew University student. "Just because the religious community doesn't want to ride buses on the Sabbath doesn't give them the right to prohibit others from riding...
...happy to accept Matthews's assessment of Page. My article simply said that he receives liquor at Christmas from people for whom he has obtained coveted tickets. I was not trying to imply that there was a quid pro quo at work; if anything, the passage implied the opposite, that Page does not solicit or expect the gifts, because, as the article noted, he does not drink. --Scott Kaufer
...criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy ... trial." Defense lawyers and hard-nosed cops alike support the principle, in theory at least. The innocent get freed faster, the guilty get put away faster, and the community has a better sense of the quid pro quo of punishment for crime...
More subtly, the notion of meritocracy (the idea that a social hierarchy based on supposedly objective qualities is natural) ideologically supports a racist status quo. The ethos of professionalism, while pretending to esteem scholastic excellence, in fact promotes racist ideas, implicit as well as explicit, under the guise of value-free research...
...accomplished, for the overwhelming part, by the students themselves. Of course, the important part nurtured class culture plays in determining "college chances" is never acknowledged by society, for the myth of unlimited opportunity for all plays an important role in maintaining the political, social, and economic status quo. "All this emphasis on voluntarism helps blunt political attacks on the gatekeepers...," for, if the "eased out" students realized the system was rigged against them, they would not accept so easily the unequal distribution of social rewards and privileges based upon "credentials...