Word: nativistic
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...mediates values in the American system, be they economic values or cultural values such as speech. Whether Billett recognizes it or not, the free-market agency of Prof. Mansfield's hate-speech directed at gays is little more than a mask for a quest for what I would call Nativist Hegemony...
Quite the contrary. Mansfield's hate-speech methodology must be seen as a weapon of Nativist Hegemony in both cultural (ideological) terms and regulatory terms, which is to say inevitably I think in quasi-authoritarian or crypto-fascist terms. Keep in mind, in this connection, the Rev. Pat Roberts and Pat Buchanan...
While distancing himself from antislavery allies like Parker, Lincoln welcomed suspect but needed voters from the Know-Nothing Party, despite their nativist prejudice against immigrants. He wanted the Know-Nothing people, yet he did not want to be seen as favoring them. When a report was spread that he had come out of one of their lodges, he would not deny it (for fear of offending them), but he had others do so in the right quarters: "It must not publicly appear that I am paying any attention to the charge...
...communications director in the Reagan-Bush Administration and has dined with the current First Family in their private White House quarters. But Buchanan has his reasons for launching a full-frontal assault against the fellow Republican he likes so much. For Buchanan, Bush is insufficiently Buchanan- like -- not nativist, rightist, homophobic, authoritarian or anti-Israel enough...
...worst spasm of nativist violence since the days of Adolf Hitler, bringing the number of attacks to nearly 400 since the beginning of the year. With a record 220,000 asylum seekers expected by year's end, even more clashes seem likely. While the latest wave of xenophobic incidents originated in the formerly communist east, anti-foreigner sentiment is being demonstrated throughout the country...