Word: backlasher
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Poussaint said yesterday that Agnew was "playing racist-type politics" in an "appeal to backlash-not just conservative backlash but moderate backlash...
...president of the National Confederation of American Ethnic Groups, which says it represents 18 million foreign-born and first-and second-generation Americans, expressed the especially virulent outrage of the poorer Middle Americans. "The professional liberals let the genie out of the bottle?racial hatred, lawlessness," says Deac. The backlash today is not so much against blacks per se as against black militancy and the white intellectuals: "The Moratorium was a stab in the back to our boys on the firing lines. Our families don't have long-haired brats?they'd tear the hair off them. Our boys...
...defining an urban policy, however, Moynihan is able to spell out in boldface his own views on environment and violence. To Moynihan, the "urban problem" means chiefly the social isolation of the black minority. The crisis of authority in the cities- the riots, the white backlash, the flight of the mayors-originates in the social disorganization of the black poor. A heavy emphasis on environment is regarded by many black political activists as demeaning. Moynihan, though, steadfastly believes that the ghettoes are "human cesspools" and that the government should relocate blacks throughout the metropolitan area...
...Machismo Backlash...
Nearly everywhere, it was a good day for moderates, as the U.S. voter proved less bigoted and more judiciously pragmatic than the Jeremiahs had predicted. Backlash seems to be losing some of its snap...