Word: dissention
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...think that all of those politicians are a bunch of bums, voting is still important--maybe more so. As the old saying goes, if you don't vote, you can't complain. Whining without voting is just whining. But whining with voting is exercising a principled right of dissent. If you hate your choices on the ballot, leave it blank. Millions of blank ballots are sure to get the attention of those despised bums in Washington...
...need to take from the margin to rethink the whole," Guinier said. Universal justice could be achieved not by the "power of the majority" but by "acknowledging dissent...so that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts," she said...
...dissent on the "Vote Yes on Question 2" editorial (Opinion, Nov. 2) by Melissa R. Langsam and Noah D. Oppenheim makes little sense. Their first objection to Question 2 is that it does not prevent individuals from personally financing their campaigns...
Regarding "Hate Crimes Too Broad" (Dissent, Oct. 14) and the letters in the Oct. 19 Crimson: Unfortunately, long before Matthew Shepard's murder, conservative groups around the country mobilized against hate crime laws. They base their opposition on a number of myths...
...Hate Crime Too Broad" (Dissent, Oct. 14): Criminal law has always taken into account "the content of criminal motive." Just as society punishes a coldly premeditated murder more harshly than one committed in the heat of argument, just as we deal more severely with people who willfully violate the law than those who do so by accident, so, too, should we add increased penalties for criminals whose attacks are motivated by hatred...