From Ob.Gyn News, 1979: "Remarks among the physicians in the audience initially indicated a negative, almost condemning attitude, but reactions changed markedly after they listened to Ms. Gaskin and viewed the [video] tapes".
Taken too far, a less condemning attitude toward personal wrongdoings could potentially backfire, and decrease the likelihood of making amends.
Especially in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya as well as inside South Africa itself, thousands of people on social media used a hashtag, #XenophobicSA, to condemn attitudes in the country.
Many applauded the report as a "revolutionary" shift away from more condemning attitudes in the church, but celebration didn't last long.
Here are extracts:Condemning the attitude of people who refused to buy a poppy because they felt it glorified war, Colonel Jimmy Hughes, chairman of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, said this week that it symbolised the tragic aftermath of war and to that extent was in reality a symbol of peace.
LUTHER THREATENS APPEAL TO COUNTRY; In Speech to Essen Unions He Condemns Attitude of the Nationalists.
Archives|LUTHER THREATENS APPEAL TO COUNTRY; In Speech to Essen Unions He Condemns Attitude of the Nationalists.
'Protest' involves condemning prejudicial attitudes; if a company were employing an advertising campaign that was deemed to be stigmatising, public protest may encourage changing of the advert, thus suppressing the stigmatising attitude.
Two weeks ago, the Jamaica Gleaner ran an editorial, entitled "PM should decry homophobic bigotry", calling for protection for Tomlinson from death threats and condemning "the medieval attitude that still largely prevails in Jamaica towards gays".
Others, particularly older Hong Kong residents, condemn such attitudes and embrace Chinese rule, particularly as the country has grown stronger.
But while one should indeed condemn these attitudes, at least this novel is largely free of them (although you will search in vain for anything faintly resembling progressiveness).
