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2018-06-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Defining deviancy down
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Posted by Fred 2018-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 OTOH, if Trump had smiled at the intern, the media would have said he was oogling her t*ts and called for impeachment.
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-29 07:45||   2018-06-29 07:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Moynihan observed that deviancy is being defined downwards. If so, everything is moral and nothing criminal. Anything goes and people can't be prosecuted for anything. As I remember Ted Kennedy came from the era in which Moynihan did.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-29 10:38||   2018-06-29 10:38|| Front Page Top

#3 The author's time confused. They finished defining their own deviancy down long time ago. Now they're the norm and we are the deviant. And they keep defining deviancy up.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-06-29 12:25||   2018-06-29 12:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Case in point I Think We Need A Refresher On The Definition Of “Extremist”
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-06-29 12:39||   2018-06-29 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Probably not a bad time to go read Eric Hoffer's The True Believer. Don't worry, it's short.
Posted by SteveS 2018-06-29 14:01||   2018-06-29 14:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Probably not a bad time to go read Eric Hoffer's The True Believer.

Don't have to - 13 first years in soviet Union
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-06-29 18:25||   2018-06-29 18:25|| Front Page Top

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