Word: denialism
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...bowdlerization campaign were exacerbated by Macapagal-Arroyo's banning of a film she hadn't even seen. One columnist, the Manila Standard's Alex Magno, wrote: "We cannot allow that noble vision of a 'moral society' to be taken hostage by those who use the same phrase to mean denial of artistic freedom." Nonsense, says anti-pornography activist, Cecile Alvarez: "There's a huge difference between obscenity and freedom of expression." The furor peaked last Thursday when a security guard sexually molested a six-year-old girl, allegedly after seeing Live Show...
...audience, with each different socio-economic and educational subgroup having its own specific émigré dilemmas. Although each audience responds to the play in a unique way, “people react almost uniformly in self-recognition,” says Lausevic. Be it recognition or denial, sympathy, humor or sorrow, the audience is left with a strong emotional experience...
...There's still a number of investors who are in denial, who think that this company or that is going to thrive despite the slowdown. Palm was one of those. But every warning brings another couple of them off that list, and we get a little closer...
...hearing loss suffer disproportionately from depression, anxiety, paranoia, emotional turmoil and reduced social activity. Brenda Battat, 58, acting executive director of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH), with headquarters in Bethesda, Md., knows firsthand the psychological costs of going without hearing aids. "I was the queen of denial," she recalls. "It took me a long time to start wearing hearing aids full time, and I got very, very depressed. I became withdrawn. I refused to go out and meet with my friends. Once I started wearing them, I bounced back...
...Even more troubling, "Mein Kampf" and the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" remain as bestsellers, and denial of the holocaust continues in materials distributed by the Palestinian Authority. Blatant incitement of the population is not uncommon. For instance, Ahmad Abu Halabiya, a member of the Palestinian Authority's appointed Fatwa Council, proclaimed live on Palestinian TV, "Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them." Had an Israeli official uttered such an outrageous provocation against Arabs, the uproar by the U.N. and world...