Word: backlashers
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Nonetheless, a campaign to disarm Somalis could create hostility. "If we were obliged to go on a house-to-house search -- which we wouldn't do anyway," said Oakley, "the Somalis would see it as rank colonialism." Still some Somali leaders discount a major backlash because, they say, the people are sick and tired of the violence...
...enhanced choice system brings back stereotypes, as it might, then the administration will insist that lottery system be changed again in a few years. The administration's backlash against the failed systems which promoted choice might lead it to support complete randomization of the housing lottery...
...defiant ignorance voiced by many VCR-phobics may be a sign of technology backlash. "I'm electronically incorrect," says Kathy Harrison of Raleigh, North Carolina, who got a VCR for her birthday four years ago and hasn't taped a show yet. "I don't like appliances." Or it may be merely another case of American don't-know-how. In City Slickers, Billy Crystal spends much of one day on the trail fruitlessly trying to explain to Daniel Stern how to tape one show while watching another. "He'll never get it!" cries their partner, Bruno Kirby...
...Harvard student needs more than one stereotype. Witness Adams, Kirkland and Eliot. Non-ordered choice, I imagine, won't kill the beast because the beast is us...it's a Heart of Darkness thing. Besides, the backlash against non-ordered choice should give a pretty good indication of where our hearts...
...What was important in your life that somehow made you feel confident enough to combat the backlash...