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Although there may be instances in which a person's sex, for example, is
germane (“A recent study showed that female patients do not object to being
cared for by male nurses”), most of the time it is not. Nor is mentioning a person's
race, ...
Although there may be instances in which a person's sex, for example, is
germane (“A recent study showed that female patients do not object to being
cared for by male nurses”), most of the time it is not. Nor is mentioning a person's
race, ...
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Living this way——vvith purple people running the world and making all the
decisions, and with the word purple-person standing for a fully human person
and for God—green people and purple people became even more fully
convinced that ...
Living this way——vvith purple people running the world and making all the
decisions, and with the word purple-person standing for a fully human person
and for God—green people and purple people became even more fully
convinced that ...
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Nobody——not even the greens-—-thought that maybe a green person should
also be developed. Later, people would say that since green people had not
developed themselves over the centuries, it proved that they didn't really have a ...
Nobody——not even the greens-—-thought that maybe a green person should
also be developed. Later, people would say that since green people had not
developed themselves over the centuries, it proved that they didn't really have a ...
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Contents
SOME WORDS ON WRITING | 3 |
Selection Slanting and Charged Language | 4 |
We cannot communicate without bias Even when our intentions are | 11 |
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