Word: terrorism
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...homophobia is. Webster's 1980 "newly revised" dictionary does not have an entry for the word, so we point to Audre Lourde's definition: "A terror surrounding feelings of love for members of the same sex and thereby a hatred of those feelings in others." As you might expect, the gay community is painfully aware of homophobia when we experience it in discriminatory policies, in rejection by family and friends, in societal assumptions that we are straight, in our exclusion from mainstream culture, in censorship and misrepresentation of our culture, as well as in incidences of anti-gay epithets...
...closet and proud would not pose a security risk, but we are still barred from serving our country if we feel a duty to do this through the military. This is because the military plays on homophobia and pejorative stereotypes of gays in its dehumanizing process. The terror of being perceived as homosexual is used to scapegoat weaker members of a unit and to build esprit de corps in the rest. A scapegoat is necessary to militarism; the scapegoat is blamed for a bad situation and then killed. In short, the scapegoat is the enemy...
...destroyed in an Oct. 15 bombing. It too kept on publishing. "We are not heroes," says El Espectador's slight, bespectacled acting editor in chief Jose Salgar. "We are dealing with a criminal wave that does not tolerate opposition. We are learning to live with terror." For top editors and a few prominent reporters and columnists, that can mean traveling with bodyguards or maintaining round- the-clock protection at home. Most, however, just try to sustain their courage and vary their routes home...
...feeling of terror quickly passed. The short answer to the question "What ever happened to Maya Lin?" -- a question that makes her bristle -- is that she has been obsessively doing what she likes to do most: she has been working. But what she has done, she has done quietly, as is her nature, shirking the celebrity others might have embraced...
...that Israel lacks legitimate security concerns ignores a history of terror against innocent civilians as recent as recent news that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was responsible for the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. This incident brings the death toll of innocent Americans, including a Harvard graduate aboard that flight, at the hands of the Intifada higher than that of innocent Palestinians, though one must note the over-whelming majority of innocent Palestinians killed in the Intifada are killed by Palestinians following Yassir Arafat's prompting that any Palestinian who "thinks of stopping...