Word: dissenters
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...debate carried to a Platonic level of abstraction, with little firsthand information to get in the way of the warring factions' preconceptions. For conservatives, the demon was a snobby, radical media-entertainment industry; for liberals, an overreaching, freedom-averse ruling party. ("Right-wing thought police declare Reagan, like dissent, off-limits," cried People for the American Way, as if this would lead inevitably to storm troopers forcing audiences to watch Fox News at gunpoint...
...debate carried to a Platonic level of abstraction, with little firsthand information to get in the way of the warring factions' preconceptions. For conservatives, the demon was a snobby, radical media-entertainment industry; for liberals, an overreaching, freedom-averse ruling party. ("Right-wing thought police declare Reagan, like dissent, off-limits," cried People for the American Way, as if this would lead inevitably to storm troopers forcing audiences to watch Fox News at gunpoint...
...Dissent: Consortium Doesn't Help Workers
...Given the amount of input that went into the recommendations, I have been hoping the faculty would embrace them by a good margin, with some honest dissent of course,” Brodhead wrote in an e-mail. “So the vote Thursday went about as I had expected...
...central virtue in an academic community, so it would be wrong to expect unanimous agreement in an exercise like this,” he added. “But we’re all in it together and I expect good cooperation even from those who voiced dissent...