Islington council, in north London, has called on the government to modify its approach to avoid damaging "community cohesion".
Short-term volunteering can be damaging to communities and most responsible volunteering experts say that a month should be the minimum time commitment.
There is, unfortunately, evidence aplenty to suggest that these are not wild imaginings, and that as successful as we have been at undoing the direct bias that used to exist in our criminal justice system in the days of lynch mobs and so on, there remains an indirect or unconscious bias that is almost as damaging to communities of color, and by extension, to us all.
The president has forwarded and enacted racist, unconstitutional policies like the so-called Muslim ban and "forced separation," destroying immigrant families, damaging American communities and denying immigrants and citizens equal protection under the law.
You want to stop extortion, protection rackets, which are really terribly damaging to communities... Now, when someone says, 'Well, it's the drug traffickers who do that,' well go after the kidnapper.
The discourse on autism is dominated by damaging parent communities, which treat parents like martyrs and autistic children as the demons they are saddled with.
"The parade is damaging to community relations and grossly offensive to the families of the 29 people who were murdered by the PIRA in the Castlederg area".
"This parade is damaging to community relations and even at this late stage I would call upon the organisers to think again and call it off".
To the hundreds of thousands of innocent people stopped walking to school or work, running an errand for their families or simply visiting friends, these practices have the effect of undermining communities, damaging self-esteem and corroding trust.
