It comes in more forms than it did a half-century ago, but it is no less pernicious.
Given the evidence linking soda to obesity and tooth decay, soda ads may be no less pernicious.
Bob Greifinger, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice who studies mental-health conditions in prisons, told me that routine neglect is no less pernicious than flagrant abuse.
The Slovene variant is more subtle but no less pernicious: forcing companies to pay imprudently high dividends.Proper regulation of capital markets and an influx of more far-sighted shareholders are a partial antidote.
Many are regrouping and raising more money for a task that is no less pernicious: lobbying Congress and the White House on behalf of their special-interest donors, using the new, anything-goes rules of super PACs to make their advocacy more powerful.
But while segregation as it is practiced today may be different than it was 60 years ago, it is no less pernicious: in Tuscaloosa and elsewhere, it involves the removal and isolation of poor black and Latino students, in particular, from everyone else.
The second goal towards which bullying practices were used is less tangible and thus possibly less consciously mobilized, but is no less pernicious.
Respondents portrayed bullying used either as a calculated means of getting rid of unwanted employees, or as a subtle, but no less pernicious, means of achieving the dominance of one sociocultural worldview over another.
This is not a country that countenances losers, it seems, no matter what the popular vote, no matter how badly the rules have been broken, no matter how pernicious the victor.
They pointed out that, despite the flurry of steps towards liberalisation taken by the authorities, including the recent by-elections in which Ms Suu Kyi triumphed, there have been no changes to pernicious laws.
