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Instead of catering to European fears and prejudices about exchange rates, the Fed chairman should put politics aside and stick to sound economics.
But now some of the most important decisions in the world’s mightiest democracy are based on the ignorant whims and unfiltered prejudices of a tweeting president, who is as coarse as “Roseanne Barr” and as weird as Roseanne Barr.
Trump has explicitly appealed to these voters’ prejudices and has called for “Americanism, not globalism.”
Ideological and political prejudices deeply rooted in history will have to be overcome to end the current stagnation.
With solid backing from the wealthiest 5% of Brazilians and rural landowners, Bolsonaro secured broader popular support by playing on people’s prejudices and fears.
One of the great ironies of colonial history is the way in which colonized people adopted some of the very prejudices that justified colonial rule.
There were always exaggerated claims that bringing in the new members would be a costly affair, just as petty and narrow prejudices blemished the willingness to open up Europe’s borders for “Polish plumbers.”
Contrary to prejudices, the southerners have largely done their part.
“Ideological and political prejudices deeply rooted in history will have to be overcome to end the current stagnation,” Eichengreen concludes.
Skeptics, however, warn that the mass media dictate the voices we hear and are less interested in reasoned debate than in catering to popular prejudices.
The underlying explanation lies in the culture and prejudices of France’s governing elite, the so-called grands commis formed by the National Civil Service School of which Hollande – like virtually all of his predecessors, except Nicolas Sarkozy – is an alumnus.
But the racial prejudices whipped up by Nazi propagandists were not the same as the ones we see among many Trump supporters today.
She understood the lower middle class, shared its material aspirations and moral prejudices, and argued for government spending cuts in the language of the housewife managing the weekly accounts.
On the contrary, most of our printed tabloids and even one of our more traditional newspapers – which used to regard itself as a paper of record – have reinforced populist prejudices, much as Fox News has done in the US.
Greater labor mobility within the EU would also help to create a more open European mindset, and thus weaken old nationalist prejudices.
He was content to camp on his own shallow prejudices, and the rest of the world had to be fitted into this narrow terrain.
What Cheney did was to feed and nourish the Bush prejudices, and to move ruthlessly and energetically to occupy the policymaking ground left vacant by the President’s indolence and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s lack of political clout.
But it is dangerous because it conveys respectability to deep-rooted prejudices against other cultures and races.
In the case of Wilders, it makes a difference that he is a politician, not just a private individual, pandering to dangerous prejudices against a vulnerable minority.
Lin’s success is delicious, partly because it contradicts so many cultural prejudices about Asian-American athletes.
But, in most cases, they should be recognized for what they are: tired old prejudices meant to exclude an unpopular minority from mainstream society.
But the role of Israel in Western political debate shows how prejudices can shift from one group to another, while the underlying sentiments remain exactly the same.
Anti-immigrant prejudices and clichés about tight-fisted northerners and lazy southerners proliferate.
What he says “feels” right to his followers, because it conforms to their prejudices.
And the Internet, having swamped the quality press, feeds and reinforces those prejudices, making it more difficult to distinguish the truth from lies.
Right-wing politicians, hoping to gain more votes, have often hinted that they might share these prejudices.
Elsewhere and for other people, history suggests a need to find ways to escape from ancient predicaments and outdated prejudices.
The other faction was rooted in nineteenth-century “know nothing” populism, with its flights of nationalist hysteria, defense of traditional prejudices, and resentment of intellectual and economic elites.
In Remnick’s words, the tweets show “a young man’s thoughts: his jokes, his resentments, his prejudices, his faith, his desires.”
So far, the signs indicate that the upcoming British referendum will follow the same pattern, with voters focusing more on simplistic ideas, prejudices, and emotions than pragmatic considerations.
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