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Quotes about Backlash

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must
make the most of the momentous chance with which
history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.
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"GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE TODAY MEANS
THAT ECONOMIC DISASTERS IN DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES COULD CREATE A BACKLASH ON
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES."
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE
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• ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
CHRIS SOMMERS
OWNER OF Pl PIZZERIA CHAIN
'I'm grateful that our
immediate expansion is not in
the St. Louis area.'
BACKLASH ON
MILITARIZATION
OF POLICE
"The images from Missouri of
stormtrooper-looking police
confronting their citizens
naturally raises the question:
How the hell did we get to this
point? When did the normal
cops become Navy SEALS?
What country is this, anyway?"
JAMES FALLOWS, JOURNALIST
"Have no doubt, police in the
united States are militarizing,
and in many communities,
particularly those of color, the
message is being received loud
and clear: 'You are the enemy.'"
TOM NOLAN
aosroN POLICE DEPARTMENT VETERAN
AND PROFESSOR AT SUNY PLATTSBURGH
"At a time when we must
seek to rebuild trust between
law enforcement and the
local community. I am deeply
concerned that the deployment
of military equipment and
vehicles sends a conflicting
message. "
uS. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER
"Historians looking back
at this period in America's
development will consider it to
be profoundly odd that at the
exact moment when violent
crime hit a 50-year low, the
nation's police departments
began to gear up as if the
country were expecting
invasion — and, on occasion,
to behave as if one were
underway."
CHARLES C.W. COOKE
THE NATIONAL REVIEW
"You see the police are standing
online with bulletproof vests
and rifles pointed at people's
chests. That's not controlling
the crowd, that's intimidating
them."
JASON FRITZ, FORMER ARMY OFFICER
"Had you set out to make
matters worse, you couldn't
have done a better job. There's
a real place for dogs in police
work, but it is not in the context
of a nonviolent protest. In fact,
using dogs for crowd control is
operationally, substantively, and
from an image point-of-view
just about the worst thing you
can do."
NORMAN STAMPER
FORMER SEATTLE POLICE CHIEF
"In some cases, military
equipment has a practical use.
But there are limitations on the
type of equipment, obviously.
The idea that state and local
police departments need
tactical vehicles and MRAPs
with gun turrets is excessive."
DUNCAN HUNTER
REPUBLICAN MEMBER
OF HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE
"People in communities of
color have borne the brunt of
militarization of policing for
several decades."
KARA DANSKY
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
"Washington has incentivized
the militarization of local police
precincts by using federal
dollars to help municipal
governments build what are
essentially small armies."
uS. SEN. RAND PAUL, R.KY.
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08.15.2014
08.15.2014 •
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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
FERGUSON POLICE SHOOTING
RONALD S. JOHNSON
CAPTAIN, MISSOURI HIGHWAY PATROL
'I understand the anger
and fear that the citizens of
Ferguson are feeling ...'
MAXINE CLARK
FOUNDER, BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP
'This is not the STL I know
and love. Stop! This behavior
is absurd and unnecessary.'
(From a Tweet)
ANTONIO FRENCH
ST. LOUIS ALDERMAN
'It was just a crazy scene. I just
started taking pictures. And
I've been there ever since.'
FERGUSON POLICE SHOOTING
DETAIL PHOTOS BY DAVID CARSON
60-caliber Stinger rounds can hold dozens
of rubber ball projectiles.
This spent tear gas canister
was found near Lang Drive.
Each rubber ball projectile is about the
size of a thumbnail.
CITY POLICE CHIEF IS AMONG CRITICS
RIOT GEAR
THE WEAPONS AND TACTICS OF CROWD CONTROL
TACTICS
FROM A1
officer who shot Michael
Brown, 18.
As public anger grew, the
FBI was brought in. Calls for
details — including the Fergu-
son officer's name — were re-
jected. Then came mass pro-
tests, looting, an arson and a
paramilitary response to crowd
control.
Finally, the nation winced
as officers gassed a report-
ing crew and dismantled their
equipment, arrested two jour-
nalists and pulled a St. Louis
alderman from his car. A live
stream of night-vision im-
ages rendered River City to
the world as a landscape from
the video game "Call of Duty:
Black Ops."
Over the chaotic days and
nights, police tactics changed
the question from whether
one police officer violated one
man's civil rights to whether
civil rights are systematically
violated in St. Louis.
President Barack Obama and
Sen. Claire McCaskill decried
the militarized response. Gov.
Jay Nixon installed the High-
way Patrol to command the
security of Ferguson, taking
that responsibility away from
the St. Louis County police.
St. Louis city police com-
manders, including St. Louis
Police Chief Sam Dotson, will
advise him.
Nixon hinted at a lack of
transparency, calling the re-
lease of the officer's name an
"important milestone" that
should be reached soon.
The heavy-handed police
tactics drove a wedge between
the two biggest police agencies
in the area: the city and county
police departments, which
work closely on regional po-
licing efforts and increasingly
share resources.
Dotson said he stopped
GEAR
FROM A1
on the streets near where an
unarmed teenager was shot
Saturday to U.S. Sen. Claire
McCaskill and Attorney Gen-
eral Eric Holder.
Writing in Time magazine,
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said scenes
in Ferguson resembled "war
more than traditional police ac-
tion."
Tactical officers in body ar-
mor and ballistic helmets do
look far more like soldiers de-
ployed to Iraq or Afghanistan
than the police of decades ago,
who often managed riots with
a miner-style hard hats and
wooden batons as their only
special gear.
Ferguson's tear gas may be
familiar through the genera-
tions. But use of armored ve-
hicles, a sonic blaster to dis-
perse crowds with sound and
.60-caliber rubber "Stinger"
rounds for "pain compliance"
are relatively new to the work.
Tim Lynch, director of the
CATO Institute Project on
Criminal Justice, said police use
of military weapons and tactics
accelerated after the 2001 ter-
rorist attacks, in part because of
Homeland Security grants.
He complained that federal
money is "distorting decision-
making on the local level" by
giving away "M-16s, grenade
launchers, armored vehicles."
Otherwise, Lynch said, a
police chief faced with limited
dollars "is going to be more
sensible." He said departments
that perceive a real need would
make it a priority for their own
money.
downside is that we are
starting to blur the civilian po-
lice mission with the military
mission and when that hap-
pens, there are unnecessary,
violent confrontations between
the police and citizens such as
CHRIS LEE
St. Louis County and Dellwood police detain two people on the
9900 block of West Ferguson Avenue on Wednesday in Ferguson.
Both were released after being questioned.
sending officers to help with
crowd control on 'lilesday.
"My gut told me what I was
seeing were not tactics that I
would use in the city, and I
would never put officers in
situations that I would not do
myself," he said.
Dotson's comments upset
some of the rank-and-file, said
Jeff Roorda, business manager
for the St. Louis Police Officers
Association.
"Our membership feels we
should be there in every way
necessary for the county police
and Ferguson officers and any-
one else who is in the middle of
these tensions," he said.
Mistakes by police in Fergu-
son will have long-lasting re-
percussions for St. Louis and
for the nation, said David M.
Kennedy, a criminologist at the
John Jay College of Criminal
Justice, at the City University
of New York. Kennedy devel-
oped the Operation Ceasefire,
a nationally acclaimed anti-
violence program.
"Military people will tell
you that in military settings,
in active war zones, they don't
sit on the top of their trucks
pointing live weapons at the
populace," he said. "Under no
FBI SWAT GEAR
circumstances do you begin
your deployment with citizens
of the United States by point-
ing live weapons at them."
But Ferguson Police Chief
Thomas Jackson defended
SWAT units Thursday, saying
they are necessary to handle
"deadly force" situations.
Kennedy said the episode
exposed a rift between the
police and the public they are
supposed to serve.
"The community is look-
ing at the incident but in a
very real way they're looking
at all the incidents — not just
in their community but across
the country, where awfully
similar things have happened
and young black men were
killed by the police, and every-
one says fundamentally this is
0K and it's the dead guy's fault
and the police are justified in
what they did
Samuel Walker, a professor
emeritus at the University of
Nebraska, and an expert in po-
lice accountability, said state-
ments by county police Chief
Jon Belmar in the early hours
of the police investigation —
when he said the officer shot
Brown after a struggle for his
weapon — were premature,
and suggested to the public
that the investigation had al-
ready drawn conclusions.
Among people who were
upset by the comment was St.
Louis County Executive Char-
lie Dooley, said Dooley's chief
of staff, Pat Washington. She
said Dooley had a meeting with
Belmar after the statement to
the media, where Belmar clari-
fied that he was relaying only
the Ferguson officer's version
of events.
Dooley "had a concern
about it and that's why he had
a conversation with the chief
about it and try to understand
what was intended," she said.
"I think (Belmar) understands
that people may have taken
his comments in a way that he
didn't intend."
Belmar declined to comment
Thursday.
Walker said he could un-
derstand why people wouldn't
trust the police after the early
support for the officer's ver-
sion. "You can say, 'No com-
ment at this time. We have not
completed the investigation.
We haven't even barely begun
the investigation at this point.'
What larger impact St. Louis
will feel is unclear. On Thurs-
day, some business owners
publicly worried about devas-
tation to the region's economy.
If you ask Bob Cooper,
the concerns could be well
founded. Cooper, 56, a com-
puter executive who lives in
Charlotte, N.C., told a reporter
that in two weeks he is tak-
ing his wife and two children,
8 and 12, on a road trip to San
francisco.
They had booked two nights
in St. Louis to visit the Gate-
way Arch and the brewery.
After what happened in Fer-
guson, they crossed St. Louis
off their itinerary.
Joel Currier of the post-Dispatch
contributed to this report.
Ferguson police spokesman
Tim Zoll said his agency has no
military level weapons or ar-
mor, except for two Humvees
donated by the Missouri Na-
tional Guard after a tornado.
Despite reports that mili-
tary "Mine -Resistant Ambush
Protected" vehicles, or MRAPs,
were used on Ferguson streets,
a spokesman for the Missouri
Department of Public Safety
said none has been supplied
to agencies in St. Louis or St.
Louis County. Some other
Missouri communities have
received them, including St.
Charles County.
Lt. David Tiefenbrunn Of
the St. Charles County Sher-
iff's Department said Thurs-
day his agency has not yet used
its MRAP. He said his depart-
ment's BearCat, an armored
truck bought with Homeland
Security funds, is on the streets
with the county's multijuris-
dictional SWAT team.
St. Louis County police also
has a BearCat, bought with
federal grant money, and its
larger cousin, the BEAR, pur-
chased more than a decade ago.
BearCats cost up to $275,000,
and BEARS up to $350,000, the
manufacturer sap.
Officials confirmed that at
least those three armored ve-
hicles were used Wednesday on
the streets of Ferguson.
Tiefenbrunn said his SWAT
officers carry .23 -caliber ri-
fles, similar to an AR-15, bought
after Los Angeles police were
badly outgunned in a dramatic
shootout after a bank robbery.
The local SWAT officers also
have less-lethal TASERS, bean
bag rounds for shotguns and a
paintball -like gun that shoots
pepper balls.
As for militarizing the police,
Tiefenbrunn said, "Our actions
are based on what we're faced
with on the streets. America is
becoming more heavily armed."
Chuck Raasch Of the Post-Dispatch
contributed to this report.
DAVID CARSON •
dcarson@post-dispatch.com
Police officers line up across West Florissant Avenue as they watch protesters on Tuesday near the QuikTrip that was burned down a few days earlier in Ferguson.
SWAT gear varies by department. An FBI website details the equipment worn or
carried by its tactical team members.
• Kevlar helmet
• Flame-resistant
Nomex fatigues and
gloves
• Plastic kneepads
• Climbing or utility
boots
• Blast-rated goggles
• Armored vest
• Pouches for
ammunition, other
small gear
• Two-way radio
with earpiece and
microphone
• MP5 lomm
submachine gun
with 30-round
magazine, laser
sight and flashlight
• Springfield
.45 caliber
semi-automatic
pistol with 8-round
magazlne
• Thigh holster
• Metal handcuffs
• Nightstick
• Gas mask
• Medical supplies
• Flexible handcuffs
we're seeing in Ferguson!'
He continued, "It's only
when there has been some kind
of horrible tragedy, like some-
body getting shot or somebody
getting killed during one of
these paramilitary raids that
the hard questions start get-
ting asked — the questions that
should have been asked since
the beginning."
But in a news conference
Thursday, the Ferguson police
chief, Thomas Jackson, whose
department does not have a
SWAT team of its own, de-
fended the concept.
"The tactical units will be
out there if firebombs start get-
ting thrown, property is get-
ting destroyed, shots are being
fired, people are being shot at.
We have to respond to deadly
force," he said.
"The whole picture is be-
ing painted a little bit sideways
from what's really happening;'
Jackson said. "And it's not mili-
tary. It's tactical operations. It's
SWAT teams. That's who's out
there. Police. We're doing this
in blue."
Full details of the tactical gear
being deployed in Ferguson by
the St. Louis County police and
other agencies are not available.
The Department of Defense's
1033 Program may have pro-
vided some of the equipment,
but it isn't clear how much of
this gear was purchased from
other federal programs or local
budgets.
"Ille 1033 Program has trans-
ferred more than $4-3 billion
in surplus military equipment
to thousands of law enforce-
ment agencies and others. It is
intended for "counternarcot-
ics and counterterrorism op-
erations, and to enhance officer
safety," according to the Mis-
souri Department of Public
Safety website.
The department will not re-
lease specific destinations for
tactical equipment.
According to federal data,
various police agencies in
St. Louis County received 12
5-56mm rifles and six .45-cali-
ber pistols between Aug. 2,
2010, and Feb. 13, 2013. They
also received 15 "reflex" gun
sights, four night vision devices
and three night sights, as well
as an $10,000 explosive ord-
nance robot, three helicopters,
seven Humvees and three cargo
trailers. One helicopter alone
was originally worth $200,000.
State data obtained in 2012
show that St. Louis County po-
lice received at least two heli-
copters, computer equipment,
two old SUVs and roughly 20
Kevlar helmets since 2007.
Ferguson received medical
supplies, computer equipment
and dozens of large backpacks
and wool blankets through the
program, records show, as well
as a generator, a trailer and sev-
eral utility vehicles.
dcarson@post-dispatch.com
DAVID CARSON •
A police sharpshooter keeps an eye on protesters along West Florissant Avenue on Tuesday. Police
said the show Of force was necessary to control crowds and property and to avoid more looting.
ILIi
• rcohen@post-dispatch.com
ROBERT COHEN
SWAT troopers from the Missouri Highway Patrol move into the area
where stores were looted on Florissant Road in Ferguson on Sunday.
CHRIS LEE
• clee@post-dispatch.com
Tactical officers advance east on Chambers Road through clouds of tear gas Wednesday as they try to clear protesters in
Ferguson. It was the third night of unrest after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown on Saturday.
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"I will destroy you in
the most beautiful way
possible and when I
leave you will finally
understand, why
storms are named after
people."
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BACKLAS
Mehdi' Bozorgmehr
Author of
Backlash 9/17 :
Middle Eastern and
Muslim Americans
Respond
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Stern Center, Great Room
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Go-sponsored by the Departments of Middle East Studies,
Political Science, History, Sociology, Religion,
and the Community SILdles Center.
The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues
at Dickinson College
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You have to be able to swim in
backlash.
Kanye West
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There are now hundreds of
thousands of new engineers
that are being trained in China.
If people start finding
themselves losing their jobs,
not to the Chinese here but
because China has become
such a dominant force - then
there could very well be a
backlash.
Iris Chang
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Chinese Historian
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"WHEN REALITY TELEVISION REALLY HIT, I JUST
HAD A BACKLASH TOWARDS REALITY. IT
SEEMED A CHEAP WAY TO MAKE A
PRODUCT. AND THEN WHEN MUSIC REALITY
AND 'IDOL HIT,' I JUST DIDN'T WATCH IT, IT
SEEMED NOVELTY. AND OF COURSE THE STORY
OF 'IDOL,' THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST
STORIES IN TELEVISION HISTORY
CARSON DALY
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Backlash
This card may be played at any time. It requires an
action by some group with at least one alignment in
common with the target, other than Fanatic!
Any one change in the target's alignment, Power,
or Resistance due to a Plot card is undone and retums
to its original value. Remove the link, and discard
that Plot card. This does not affect changes made by
a NWO card.
Requires Action
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Obviously there will be a
backlash. If you believe the hype
you have to believe a backlash
too. Any criticism we get, is
always stuff we've already
criticized ourselves.
Jonny Greenwood
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_4_ "A universe without purpose should
neither depress us nor suggest
that our lives are purposeless.
Through an awe-inspiring cosmic
history we find ourselves on this
remote planet in a remote corner of the
universe, endowed with intelligence and
self-awareness. We should not despair,
but should humbly rejoice in making the
most of these gifts, and celebrate our
brief moment in the sun."
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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A look at the selfie backlash
of camera phone users are
annoyed bu others' selfies
(over half blame it on the way people pose in their photos)
Top Reasons for Taking a Selfie...
eseo
Personal
Appearance
A Special
Moment
Capturing
The Biggest Culprits...
18-29 year-olds
69%
have taken a
selfie
45% more likely to focus
on their personal
appearance
Gender
Women are
19% more likely
than men to
focus on their
personal
appearance
Around You
45-60 year-olds
370/0
have taken a
selfie
50% prefer to capture
a special moment with
someone
Women are
22% more likely
than men to
take 4 or more
photos before
posting
( ...maybe because women
are 8% more likely to
engage on social media)
ow manu are rheu taking
before rheu posr?
posting
take u to 6
photos lefore
posting
6%
take up to 9 photos
before posting
Although 89% agree that selfies are
just tor fun
10
40
20.
. 25
55% of people spend
15 minutes
raking and edibing
..rhars more rime
bhan people spend
reading everu dau!
will posr one
selfie per
week
That adds up to
over an hour
everu month...
O
...more time
than it rakes to
wash gour car.
With all this selfie scorn, a new
type of photo is gaining
popularity...
Research shows selfies are beginning to
emerge as a fun format for artistic
expression.
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creare arrisric
selfies
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prefer ro
experimenr wirh
fearure-rich phoro
ediring apps vs.
simple fillers
4 Easy Ways to Create
an Artistic Selfie
motion blur
color splash
creative
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PicsArt is a free and full featured photo-editing and drawing mobile app available on Android,
iOS and Windows Phone- As of June 2014, the app has been installed over 120 million times
and continues to expand and improve, helping everyone unleash their creativity and become a
great artist
Arb
(l)anihJ ?
A look at the selfie backlash
of camera phone users are
annoyed bu others' selfies
(over half blame it on the way people pose in their photos)
Top Reasons for Taking a Selfie...
eseo
Personal
Appearance
A Special
Moment
Capturing
The Biggest Culprits...
18-29 year-olds
69%
have taken a
selfie
45% more likely to focus
on their personal
appearance
Gender
Women are
19% more likely
than men to
focus on their
personal
appearance
Around You
45-60 year-olds
370/0
have taken a
selfie
50% prefer to capture
a special moment with
someone
Women are
22% more likely
than men to
take 4 or more
photos before
posting
( ...maybe because women
are 8% more likely to
engage on social media)
ow manu are rheu taking
before rheu posr?
posting
take u to 6
photos lefore
posting
6%
take up to 9 photos
before posting
Although 89% agree that selfies are
just tor fun
10
40
20.
. 25
55% of people spend
15 minutes
raking and edibing
..rhars more rime
bhan people spend
reading everu dau!
will posr one
selfie per
week
That adds up to
over an hour
everu month...
O
...more time
than it rakes to
wash gour car.
With all this selfie scorn, a new
type of photo is gaining
popularity...
Research shows selfies are beginning to
emerge as a fun format for artistic
expression.
will use phob
ediring apps ro
creare arrisric
selfies
730/0
prefer ro
experimenr wirh
fearure-rich phoro
ediring apps vs.
simple fillers
4 Easy Ways to Create
an Artistic Selfie
motion blur
color splash
creative
vantage point Ph0toblending
PicsArt is a free and full featured photo-editing and drawing mobile app available on Android,
iOS and Windows Phone- As of June 2014, the app has been installed over 120 million times
and continues to expand and improve, helping everyone unleash their creativity and become a
great artist

iOS and Windows Phone- As of June 2014, the app has been installed over 120 million times
and continues to expand and improve, helping everyone unleash their creativity and become a
great artist
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It's like they had a
backlash the first 11 years.
I think the reason why it
always seems like there's
a backlash is because
when bands are
unknown, they only get
written about by fans.
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Since governmental
quotas expand
bureaucratic power,
provoke a backlash and
are unfair to individuals,
we need to find a better
way to increase minority
opportunities.
Marvin Olasky
Am Educator
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"IT'S LIKE THEY HAD A BACKLASH THE FIRST II
YEARS. I THINK THE REASON WHY IT ALWAYS
SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A BACKLASH IS BECAUSE
WHEN BANDS ARE UNKNOWN, THEY ONLY GET
WRITTEN ABOUT BY FANS."
KIM DEAL
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I never had any backlash from the
model-turned-actor thing.
Jan, S9•mRhhaldeh
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You can get backlash
against Muslims because
of the actions of some
people who claim to be
Muslim. We feel worried
about it.
mouhib Ayas
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"THERE IS A BACKLASH AGAINST ME AND
EVERYONE WHO HAS DONE BUILDINGS THAT
HAVE MOVEMENT AND FEELING."
FRANK GEHRY
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There's backlash about everything I do. Votes: 4

Lana Del Rey
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing. Votes: 4

Ian Somerhalder
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Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. Votes: 4

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road. Votes: 4

Ed Helms
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Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. Votes: 4

Karl Rove
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When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support. Votes: 3

Scotty McCreery
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Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities. Votes: 3

Marvin Olasky
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Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves. Votes: 3

Jonny Greenwood
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CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it. Votes: 3

Rick Baker
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I didn't care about the backlash. I think the reason it was so severe was because they didn't know anything about me in New Zealand. If I had made jokes about a shark attack in the US, no one would have cared. Votes: 3

Anthony Jeselnik
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European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a backlash, you should at least think of bringing Muslim children and teenagers into the fold of that narrative of tolerance. Votes: 3

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with. Votes: 3

Jesse McCartney
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Both men and women react negatively when women negotiate on their own behalf. A man can just negotiate: "I have a better offer. That's not enough to make my family's ends meet." No one feels bad about it. But when a woman does that, there's a backlash. Votes: 3

Sheryl Sandberg
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I think we all have room to grow. I think every Christian really does need to take up their cross in a lot of areas of life and say, "Man, listen, regardless of what kind of backlash I'm going to get, I need to stand for what I believe in." Votes: 3

lecrae
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If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash. Votes: 3

Edward Snowden
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All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash. Votes: 3

Susan Faludi
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Each generation has a backlash against the generation before. Votes: 1

Jo Brand
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I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash. Votes: 1

Magic Johnson
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There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes. Votes: 1

Pink
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Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. Votes: 1

Eli Roth
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There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. Votes: 1

Frank Gehry
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash. Votes: 1

Vince McMahon
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.' Votes: 1

Warren Farrell
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When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it. Votes: 1

Khloe Kardashian
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women. Votes: 1

Yoko Ono
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When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard. Votes: 1

Olivia Wilde
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. Votes: 1

Erica Jong
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Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly. Votes: 1

Moshe Sharett
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There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists. Votes: 1

Anita Sarkeesian
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Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to. Votes: 1

Vivek Wadhwa
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Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you. Votes: 1

Kathleen Hanna
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash. Votes: 1

Iris Chang
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When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye. Votes: 1

Harvey Fierstein
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Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' Votes: 1

Chuck Palahniuk
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We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on. Votes: 1

Shirin Ebadi
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I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be. Votes: 1

Romola Garai
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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history. Votes: 1

Carson Daly
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There is always backlash. Everything gets backlash. Votes: 0

Joss Whedon
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You have to be able to swim in backlash. Votes: 0

Kanye West
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the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal. Votes: 0

Susan Faludi
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I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. Votes: 0

Kathleen Hanna
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A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on. Votes: 0

Collin Peterson
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring. Votes: 0

Robin Morgan
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the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness. Votes: 0

Susan Faludi
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I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. Votes: 0

Ken Thompson
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I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash. Votes: 0

Eddie Glaude
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[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots. Votes: 0

Nina Jacobson
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There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them. Votes: 0

Kellyanne Conway
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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power. Votes: 0

Bob Barr
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Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter. Votes: 0

Eli Roth
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We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash. Votes: 0

Eric Reid
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You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up. Votes: 0

Sara Bareilles
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Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. Votes: 0

Jonathan Chait
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The backlash to [Sarah] Palin`s comments was swift, with veterans and veterans` groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder. Votes: 0

Chris Hayes
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I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received. Votes: 0

Anita Sarkeesian
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We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement. Votes: 0

Naomi Wolf
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When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard, Votes: 0

Olivia Wilde
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In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash. Votes: 0

Candace Kita
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Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that. Votes: 0

Cornel West
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There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood. Votes: 0

Jennifer Lawrence
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Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash. Votes: 0

Warren Farrell
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Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse. Votes: 0

Michel Foucault
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the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems. Votes: 0

Susan Faludi
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Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves. Votes: 0

Jonny Greenwood
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Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one. Votes: 0

Gloria Steinem
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When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After six months, the album was dead in the water. The critics didn't think much of it, either. Votes: 0

Peter Criss
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Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind. Votes: 0

Shane Black
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When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality. Votes: 0

Frances O'Grady
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I don't like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with -- that's the way I was raised -- but I just can't see what's so wrong about being gay. Votes: 0

Zac Efron
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Just days after Mitt Romney suggested he might run for president, there's been a backlash. The backlash is led by Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, and just to hedge his bets on every issue, Mitt Romney. Votes: 0

Conan O'Brien
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So I think there's going to be a constituent backlash against this thing soon, as they see it moving in that direction...Whether they can pass something before the American public wakes up, I don't know.

Steve King
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Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

Diana Trilling
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I've been blessed, because the type I started in was competition based. It was about being witty and smart and innovative and different. I don't get backlash like some of the reality shows today because that's not who I am.

Eva Marcille
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I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The other thing that the backlash is against is the sense that politicians have been bought and sold.

Jane Mayer
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

Susan Faludi
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As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated.

Stanley Nelson Jr.
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I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I'll get a backlash from them. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Paul Bloom
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The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.

Cornel West
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Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dada finding of limited use to backlash publicists.

Susan Faludi
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What would you do if someone said to you: "You're so popular right now that you can be on the cover of every magazine, but if you do that, you might get overexposed and a backlash will develop"? That's life. Everything has positive and negative consequences.

Farrah Fawcett
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The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president - I think there was, without a doubt, a whitelash and a complete backlash against the liberation of women, against the power of people of color.

Eve Ensler
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This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.

Barack Obama
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Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed. Then we had the right to speak up and gain some more rights, but what happened was there was a backlash. Why? Because we have the Salafists, Muslim Brothers, religious groups.

Nawal El Saadawi
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Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is left to the rest of us to suffer the inevitable backlash this provokes among men. Besides, the feminists have the Federal Government behind them.

Mona Charen
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I, however, fear that at some future point there will possibly be concerted backlash against us because of our successes in business and other ventures. I fear this because I see a concerted effort by writers across the countries to sway public opinions by past AIM organizers

Leonard Peltier
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America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say "perception" because America is a very all-or-nothing society"¦ We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't uncontested, it was positively devastating.

Max Brooks
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