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...alleged assault was "part of a pattern designed to silence members of our community who speak out against the hookup culture and sexual liberationist ideology," wrote a student columnist, Brandon McGinley. Says Sherif Gergis, a senior and former Anscome president: "We saw conservative bloggers start to capitalize on this, saying, 'Look at the politically motivated indifference...
...rise because the Democratic and Republican parties have been grotesquely distorted by their misguided leaders. The Libertarian Party is attractive because Democrats want to create a nanny state and Republicans want to extend the U.S. empire to the Middle East. The Libertarian Party should change its name to the Liberationist Party, because of its efforts to free Americans from the corrupted Democrats and Republicans. H. Ann Tackett, FULLERTON, CALIF...
...rise because the Democratic and Republican parties have been grotesquely distorted by their misguided leaders. The Libertarian Party is attractive because Democrats want to create a nanny state and Republicans want to extend the U.S. empire to the Middle East. The Libertarian Party should change its name to the Liberationist Party, because of its efforts to free Americans from the corrupted Democrats and Republicans...
...village, garnered his Claymation creator a nod for Best Short Film (Animated) at next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Up against toon titans Pixar, Disney and Blue Sky, Elliot and his tragicomic creation, who endures Tourette's syndrome and testicular cancer before seizing the day as an avid animal liberationist and nudist, is perhaps the ultimate underdog. (Seven years ago, an Oscar went to a similarly off-kilter outsider - Shine's Geoffrey Rush, whose presence as Harvie Krumpet's narrator lends the film an added poignancy.) "I deal with characters who are different," says Elliot, 32. "I'm more interested...
Paradoxically, this liberationist dynamic has captured several of the most important social movements of our day. For instance, in his Saint Foucault, David Halperin argues that the contemporary gay rights movement cannot promote "emancipation" as such, but only "resistance" to the dominant norms of American culture. Such resistance aims not for rational confrontation of discrimination, but only for an artful and belligerent disdain for the prejudiced. Despite the popularity of approaches like Halperin's in the academy, the reasoned engagement counseled by moderates like Andrew Sullivan offers a far more constructive model for marginal social groups...