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Cheapvirtue

The document criticizes the exploitation of racial issues for personal gain and public approval, labeling it as a cheap form of virtue. It emphasizes that while Hillsdale College is not perfect, it remains committed to educating on fundamental principles that address societal problems. The text highlights the importance of genuine engagement over opportunistic behavior in addressing racial challenges.

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Cheapvirtue

The document criticizes the exploitation of racial issues for personal gain and public approval, labeling it as a cheap form of virtue. It emphasizes that while Hillsdale College is not perfect, it remains committed to educating on fundamental principles that address societal problems. The text highlights the importance of genuine engagement over opportunistic behavior in addressing racial challenges.

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There is a kind of virtue that is cheap.

It consists of jumping on cost-free bandwagons of


public feeling — perhaps even deeply justified public feeling — and winning approval by
espousing the right opinion. No one who wishes the College to issue statements is assumed
to be a party to such behavior. But the fact that very real racial problems are now being
cynically exploited for profit, gain, and public favor by some organizations and people is
impossible to overlook. It is a scandal and a shame that compounds our ills and impedes
their correction. Hillsdale College, though far from perfect, will continue to do the work of
education in the great principles that are, second only to divine grace, the solution to the
grave ills that beset our times.

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