Word: denialism
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...there's a gross overreaction going on, building to a veritable paroxysm of white denial. A national boycott has been called, not just of the song or Ice-T, but of all Time Warner products. The President himself has denounced Time Warner as "wrong" and Ice-T as "sick." Ollie North's Freedom Alliance has started a petition drive aimed at bringing Time Warner executives to trial for "sedition and anarchy...
...protected by environmental laws. On June 4, 1986, Bermuda's Ministry of the Environment ruled against Perot's plan to build a dock and boathouse in front of one of his houses, because "substantial dredging" would be needed to bring his boat close to shore. Faced with that denial, Perot's contractors realized that any similar request for permission to cut a channel in a nearby coral reef would probably be nixed as well. A week later, without filing for a permit, Perot's construction team blew up a section of the reef near his house...
Ross Perot, who often talks before he thinks, is currently in his denial mode. According to Perot, the well-sourced stories of his bizarre behavior and shoot-from-the-lip policy pronouncements are either gross distortions or outright lies, the product of Republican "dirty tricksters" and their running-dog co-conspirator, the toady press, which just "doesn't get it." Of the many tales Perot disputes, one in particular is troubling because the nub of the idea he denies advocating...
Heyn argues that women, even sexually active ones, undergo a transformation at the altar that is born largely of reading too many happily-ever-after fairy tales. They abandon their true needs and desires to don the robes of sexlessness, self-sacrifice and self-denial. "The Perfect Wife, is, of course, Donna Reed," Heyn writes. "Her virtue exists in direct proportion to how much of her self is whittled away." Having dampened her "visceral, honest, unshaped and uncontrolled responses," the American wife begins to feel like a shadow or zombie. To retrieve her personhood, she understandably takes a lover. Suddenly...
...last February indicated that 60% of Americans support federal funding of the arts and that 80% feel "the arts need to operate freely with a minimum of government control." Tell that to the self-appointed political guardians of American virtue. Pincered between them and the extremists who think any denial of a grant to "experimental" art is cultural fascism, the NEA faces plenty of troubles ahead in this election year...