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What students must realize is that comic strips can be as--if not more--effective at spreading intolerance as a racist article. Comic strips are easily read and this gives them an opportunity to convey their (negative) message. Furthermore, comic strips rarely incite the intellectual analysis and discussion necessary to combat the racist imagery --the audience digests the stereotypes almost unconsciously. Most of all, comic strips present visual symbols that exert strong influence over public perception of minorities. It stands for the intolerance and dehumanization Asian-Americans have faced and continue to face in this great nation...
...speech related means to control the effects. Certain zoning laws might allow for more efficient law enforcement and could limit the extent to which the surrounding property is devalued. Instead, as Justice Stevens wrote, "the City of Erie has totally silenced a message the dancers...want to convey. The fact that this censorship may have a laudable ulterior purpose cannot mean that censorship is not censorship...
...been the largest refugee exodus in history. Two years later he went to Chechnya when Russia made its first ham-fisted attempt to suppress the breakaway republic that it has recently bombed into submission again. He went to Bosnia and Kosovo, where words have failed over and again to convey the sheer sadism of what neighbor did to neighbor...
...show uses a novel trick to convey its dual focus: the personal-life scenes are shot on film, police scenes on digital video. The digital scenes are jarring (part Blair Witch Project, part 1981-era Duran Duran video), but Levinson says they mimic the "voyeuristic kind of approach" of shows like Cops. Says Fontana: "You want [channel surfers] to stop and say, 'What the hell is that?'" That might also describe a typical Homicide fan's reaction to UPN mates like WWF Smackdown!, but entertainment president Tom Nunan says the show is a good match for UPN: "We do things...
...Charles Krauthammer (not exactly a flaming liberal himself) wrote, "[Buchanan's] technique is to convey raw prejudice to his followers, who understand his code, than go on respectable media [and now to Harvard], smile and pretend he never meant it. His trademark is the wink. The wink is interpreted by his friends in mainstream media as 'I'm fooling the mob.' It is understood by the mob as 'I'm fooling the pointy-heads...