Word: hysterias
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Crime. Hey, for all of Bush's law-and-order rhetoric, it's only getting worse. Hysteria over the inner cities--not to mention the rest of the country--is at an all-time high. Fear of violent crime has prompted a sharp turn to the right in terms of popular feelings on criminal rights. An effective Democrat should be able to tap into that fear and make it work for him. Frustration over the general lack of safety in Bush's "kindler, gentler America" should naturally take itself out on the people running the government, namely Bush...
Lost in the anti-PC hysteria is the fact that women and minorities on today's campuses face an atmosphere in which bigotry and discrimination are openly tolerated. Recent studies, for instance, show that victims of physical assaults are two to four times more likely to be gays and lesbians; that one in four women is the victim of rape or attempted rape while on campus; and that racist incidents, including physical assaults on minority students, were reported at 174 campuses...
...Left must respond to the right-wing hysteria by exposing the anti-PC crusaders for the opportunists they really are, interested only in rolling back the gains of the civil rights movement and stifling dissent...
Strolling the calm paths of Stanley Park, he muses about the perils of celebrity. "The hysteria around public figures is unhealthy," he says. "The inner landscape of their personalities is barren." A mother approaches, dragging along a shy three-year-old. "Are you the famous children's singer Raffi?" she gushes. "I was," he answers. Gently, he declines to sing or / sign an autograph. As the irked mother huffs off, he blows a kiss to her child, who smiles knowingly...
...Left must respond to the right-wing hysteria by exposing the anti-PC crusaders for the opportunists they really are, interest...