In a series of scenes from the life of the central character, we watched him grapple with the pernicious attitudes toward homosexuality that persist in some realms of black culture — and the psychological fallout that haunted him into adulthood.
Most importantly, the survey will, we hope, begin conversations among governments, scholars, NGOs and others around the world on the whys and wherefores of attitudes toward Jews, and lead to new initiatives to counteract these pernicious attitudes.
"Mama June," as she is also known, began her unlikely rise to the reality television equivalent of stardom by managing to be even more off-putting than her fellow outlandish pageant moms on TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras, an exploitative cringefest best known for its pernicious attitude toward prepubescent sexuality and normalizing the ingestion of energy drinks by children.
Finally, then, in symbolic demonstration of disgust at the persistence of pernicious political attitudes in Germany he relinquished his German citizenship, and, having earlier moved across the border to University of Basel, he became a Swiss national.
It is easier to point fingers at the most pernicious of contemporary attitudes than to acknowledge the complicity of even well-intentioned individuals in the perpetuation of injustice.
To call this attitude pernicious, small-minded and contradictory is merely to state the obvious, but it does have a long pedigree.Around 150 years ago, another Mississippian said, "all we ask is to be let alone".
Never mind pernicious, long-standing cultural attitudes about gender, race and sexuality, climate change denial alone should teach us that even good science can't triumph over bad policy without a sustained fight.
This attitude has pernicious effects.
When a fellow drinker suggests the best time to pick up women is when they are too drunk to know what they're doing, Baggini shakes his head, worrying that "sometimes it seems that I am the only person in the country who thinks this kind of attitude is pernicious".
Even among the most well-intentioned and consciously egalitarian people, says the associate professor of organizational behavior, non-conscious associations about ethnic groups still have a pernicious effect on behavior and attitudes.
He gave the word many meanings, but essentially he used it to identify convention in all its guises — rigid manners, standardized attitudes, and, most pernicious, preconceptions about artistic genre or style.
