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Adam J. Levitin's dissent from the editorial supporting gay rights (Staff Editorial, Apr. 7) said, "...to state that the majority of Americans, who are conflicted about their personal views on homosexuality and uncomfortable with queer culture, are complicit in active persecution is inappropriate." Levitin's argument implies that it would be just as accurate to say that since the majority of Americans are conflicted about their personal views of Judaism and feel uncomfortable with Jewish culture (with the exception of bagels), they are not complicit in anti-Semitism. If it were not for protections against public and private religious...
Campbell, who was vice chair until the board impeached him in February, said he sees his role on the board as "an important voice of dissent...
...idealism, yet it seems we live in a cynical age where students increasingly demonstrate collective despair with politics by making apolitical choices. Activism, since the 1960s, has existed in the shadow of that turbulent decade. Nothing could be as big or bold or nationally impressive a demonstration of dissent as the age of D.C. marches and SDS rallies...
...powerfully dramatized by the gathering of revolutionizing forces: television, the bringer of violence to the breakfast table; the start of the assassinations that would claim many of the book's antagonists; the spread of rights protest into the indulged yawps of the 1960s youth rebellion; and later, the furious dissent of the antiwar movement...
...problems with leaving debate on substantive issues to elected officials is that, ultimately, they are unable to talk about them in a substantive way, at least while they are still actively pursuing their political careers. Discourse among politicians in Washington is extremely suppressed because the expression of dissent has a political cost. One must trade expression for power. This is perhaps one of the most frustrating things about American government today. But it simply means that the dialogues going on outside of Washington become that much more important. Those of us not in office must engage in deliberation because...