Pitting
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Political leaders are deepening social divisions by
pitting
an “us” against a “them” that includes foreigners, neighbors, immigrants, minorities, the press, “experts,” and “the elite.”
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And so it started to become increasingly clear to me that this
pitting
of the two movements against each other actually didn't make sense, and that they were in fact much, much more interconnected, and that, in fact, some of the way that the gay rights movement has been able to make such incredible gains so quickly is that it's used some of the same tactics and strategies that were first laid down by the civil rights movement.
The War of Independence impacted upon us terribly,
pitting
family against family, neighbor against neighbor.
They're also
pitting
teenagers and their parents in a fundamentally unwinnable fight against their own bodies.
John Henry's legend is a part of a long historical narrative
pitting
humanity versus technology.
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