Word: racistly
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...insist that you only see things from a Black point of view, that's chauvinistic verging on racist," he says. "I feel very strongly this is part of a substitute for genuine critical scholarship, replete with ideology...
Would it be appropriate to invite a Latina if she were virulently anti-Semitic? Is it acceptable to invite a man who uses a wheelchair even though he is a self-proclaimed racist? Asserting that Powell's achievements outweigh his bigotry is exactly the type of divisive behavior Kelly condemns in his letter: "it is counter-productive if victims of discrimination lash out at other victims...
Still, others feel the need to minimize differences in academic achievement more directly, by explaining away these discrepancies. Afro-American Studies Professor K. Anthony Appiah suggested that Black and Latino students performed less well than their Asian and white counterparts because racist incidents and innuendoes make it hard to concentrate on academics. In an effort to diffuse the phenomenon of Asian success, president of the Asian American Association Joan Cheng '95 pathologized the penchant of her Asian American peers to achieve academically. As an Asian, she explains, "if you don't do well, you feel guilty...
...long, those on the Left have indulged in cynically moralistic rhetoric intended to discourage the expression of dissent and especially to show how much more enlightened and sophisticated they are than the rest of us. Anyone who disagrees with them is branded a bigot, a racist, a homophobe and so on through the catalog of epithets the Left has rendered meaningless through reckless overuse. They explain away people who hold views different from their own by attributing to such backward folk the all-purpose motivation of Hate...
Without question, he does. Powell is a man of amazing achievement. Rising to the top of the military is an extraordinary achievement in itself. This is doubly impressive for Powell as a Black man in an often racist military. He is a role model and a ground breaker...