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| The list of liberal laments about President Obama keeps getting longer: He extended the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy. Health-care reform didn't include a public option. In the frantic final hours of the budget negotiations, instead of calling the GOP's bluff, he agreed to historic cuts in progressive programs. And Wednesday, in response to conservatives' focus on the deficit, Obama said that we have to 'put everything on the table.' to many scholars of race and sexuality, “tolerance” is a dirty word. For instance, in his book “Signs of Struggle: The Rhetorical Politics of Cultural Difference,” Thomas R. West notes that tolerance is often used in a pejorative way to make excuses for inequalities in power. West makes the same critique of negotiation: When fundamental rights and core values are on the table, just talking about negotiating means you’ve already lost. |
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tolerence or cowardice
by robert braunstein on Sunday, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:16:23 PM
Beg to differ
by BFalcon on Sunday, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:26:05 PM
I posted this on CD, but it looks like they
by Daniel Geery on Monday, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:17:45 AM
babies and bath water
by Ned Lud on Monday, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:00:00 AM
Maybe it's just the words,
by Daniel Geery on Monday, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:45:10 AM
Media makes them
by Mark Sashine on Monday, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:57:15 AM