" Sawicki tweeted: "the title is not only false & ahistorical.
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It's a classic example of willful erasure and ahistorical mythmaking.
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Yeah. Exactly, and I think that is an ahistorical view.
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So much of the reporting at the moment is ahistorical.
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Not only are those stereotypes offensive and boring, but they're ahistorical.
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The Gilead in the television show is post-racial and ahistorical.
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"People can be very ahistorical about these things," says Mr Miliband.
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Ms. Rousseau's show is fascinating but confusingly disparate and misleadingly ahistorical.
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The world is just individuals floating around, in an ahistorical space.
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"This is offensive, ignorant, ahistorical, inaccurate, and bigoted," wrote user Kei Sha.
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But this statement, in all of its ahistorical absurdity, was particularly unsettling.
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Trump's tweet was immediately denounced as inaccurate, ahistorical, and extremely racially insensitive.
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Trump, being ahistorical, cares nothing for European tragedy, only about European tariffs.
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I sneaked away to the gully, read my aunt's ahistorical romance novels.
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Artificial intelligence is everywhere but it is considered in a wholly ahistorical way.
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The implication of a baton having been passed is ahistorical, and very silly.
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Republicans ripped Howell's ruling as ahistorical and said they hoped for an appeal.
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These erratic, ahistorical, illustration styles also seem appropriated (or at least extraordinarily familiar).
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Much punditry about this era — including my own — has been even more ahistorical.
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Both DICE and Creative Assembly were choosing depictions of history that were debatably ahistorical.
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Many narratives about Haiti, according to anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse, are uninformed and ahistorical.
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Calling it "venerable," an entity "we always knew we could rely on," is ahistorical.
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It must be noted that these ideas are not only untrue but also ahistorical.
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It would be deeply ahistorical to believe that we might not face similar problems ourselves.
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Public conversation is dominated by people's ahistorical insistence that this country is sliding toward decline.
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She was not part of a movement, so she was, in a sense, stylistically ahistorical.
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" Yale medical historian Jason Schwartz disagreed: "This assertion is at best ahistorical, if not altogether meaningless.
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Expecting the modern version of the Democratic Party to behave differently and uniformly leftist is ahistorical.
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A similar ahistorical impulse governed when Rawls and others turned to the problem of international justice.
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Understanding Venezuela's failing state as just another failure of socialism, and of statism generally, is ahistorical.
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To criticize Israel is imperative; to disavow it, for a Jew, a form of ahistorical folly.
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Witches, on the other hand — even sexy, ahistorical ones — are more dangerous, more sinister, more powerful.
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And arguments that Confederate monuments merely honour Southern "heritage" and fallen soldiers' bravery are ahistorical at best.
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Those tools, not certainty and ahistorical foundations, will help us develop a more true and useful worldview.
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"That's not a particularly ahistorical margin in terms of the gap between men and women," Winston said.
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An ahistorical, amoral American leader cheering on a British abdication sums up the end of an era.
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That seemed ahistorical, because I spent a majority of my life being referred to as she/her/hers.
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And after the 2008 financial crisis came the billionaires; Fifty Shades of Grey was not an ahistorical fluke.
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It is foolish and ahistorical to imagine the Trump-Kim summit itself will lead anywhere near denuclearization itself.
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Yet the Trump that Kagan describes is a curiously ahistorical menace, a monster born of an immaculate conception.
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But this ahistorical assertion ignores the damaging effects that their respective administrations had on particular groups of Americans.
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Painting is not in an ahistorical free-for-all, as some have argued, and Haji Omar recognizes this.
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"The thing that could throw all this off is that we're looking at an ahistorical election," Murray said.
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Far from a student of history, Trump is an ahistorical president at a time of historical geostrategic shifts.
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As well as ignoring the quality and innovations of her work, the condescension is ahistorical (and tainted by sexism).
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In many of these images, you're using props and locations that seem ahistorical—sort of generically old-time-y.
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Turns out everyone's favorite ahistorical Bean Town boy and resident Sad Man is more than just a pretty face.
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What is striking about the anti-Zionism derangement syndrome that spills over into anti-Semitism is its ahistorical nature.
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But identifying the threat too closely with Trump is ahistorical and myopic in ways that lead to analytic failure.
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Professor Lepore is right that the ahistorical understanding of the internet era diminishes our country's commitment to democratic values.
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While the neoliberal flair for all things "inclusive" and ahistorical is at a global fever pitch, opera is literally dying.
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Racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism, xenophobia — none of it is aberrant, none of it is ahistorical, none of it is rare.
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It is performed as if by a traveling troupe of actors wandering from village to village in an ahistorical world.
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Much of this may be undone under Trump, but it's ahistorical to argue the Obama years haven't advanced liberalism significantly.
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"The idea that capitals are going to project governance into the sparsely populated areas is just ahistorical," Ms. Friend said.
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They don't arise out of some universal, ahistorical, hermetically sealed realm of pure reason; rather, they're shaped by cultural norms.
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America's tragic sensibility has faded and has increasingly been replaced by a worldview that is equal parts naive, dangerous, and ahistorical.
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It's easy to be ahistorical and say that the things we're inventing are bigger than those of the first industrial revolution.
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"We are unwilling to green-light such a massive, atextual, and ahistorical expansion of the Davis-Bacon Act," the court said.
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" He added, "To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real way to be unreal and ahistorical.
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Which brings us to the Public's Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar, and the remarkably ahistorical reaction to it.
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During the rain-soaked event, Trump avoided partisan politics, and instead focused on glorifying the US military — occasionally in amusingly ahistorical ways.
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And there was the complaint, directed at Mead and Benedict, but also at Lévi-Strauss and Geertz, that the cultural approach is ahistorical.
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But such a perspective is profoundly ahistorical, for such breakdowns have long represented the norm as much as the exception in international affairs.
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The push to remove these statues is not equivalent to an ahistorical effort to remove the story of the Confederacy from US history.
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Historical (we prefer to say ahistorical) progressions in the human species have lead us to this moment where we either mutate or disintegrate.
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He also characterized the Ku Klux Klan on CNN one election night as a "leftist hate group," which is profoundly ahistorical and wrong.
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Southern Gothic gets a makeover in this ahistorical treatment that doesn't feel nostalgic, even if smaller pieces may be referencing specific iconography or places.
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To make assertions about everything that's right in Finland (or Canada) and wrong in the United States without a proper context is distinctly ahistorical.
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It may be somewhat ahistorical, but it felt more authentic — if that's a thing — than any war movie I've seen in a long time.
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Democrats need to net 23 seats to win the House this year, which is hardly guaranteed but also would not be an ahistorical outcome.
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That said, her curatorial method is to join right in with the globalizing ahistorical curatorial style that has been branding the Maison Rouge for years.
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And thus, on a dreary day in mid-January, I journeyed to the New Jersey castle to witness some admittedly ahistorical history in the making.
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"The push to remove these statues is not equivalent to an ahistorical effort to remove the story of the Confederacy from US history," Naftali said.
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First, while Silicon Valley and other tech regions enjoy a mostly ahistorical outlook, the antecedents of the world are always brimming just beneath the surface.
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The Australians showed the ahistorical president a video to stress that they had fought alongside America in every major war for the last 100 years.
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J.C. For a rapper as fundamentally ahistorical as Young Thug, he certainly goes out of his way to collaborate with rappers from generations long past.
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And Buchanan's outdoor works relate to Robert Smithson's formulation of "ruins in reverse," as he called the ahistorical environment of the northern New Jersey industrial landscape.
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"Discussions about artificial intelligence have been oddly ahistorical," Neil Gershenfeld, the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, notes in his essay in Possible Minds.
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It is easy to move to the South and adopt certain cultural markers, like sweet tea or even ahistorical notions about Southern hospitality, without being racist.
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He has the colonial's stubborn appreciation for the colonizer, which sometimes led him to the problematic, ahistorical view that colonizers gifted their subjects a cultural memory.
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For such philosophers, there is one ahistorical rational method for discovering truth, and humans (properly educated) are approximately equal in their capacity for appreciating these truths.
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Alun Williams makes ahistorical history paintings by playing with the postmodern circulation of context-free imagery, mixing free-spirited image accumulation with glints of personal specificity.
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I think more of the thing is the ahistorical and dangerous things Kanye's been saying about slavery and other issues that seem to embolden the worst people.
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"The Museum's decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical," the letter reads.
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But an ahistorical socialism has become a catchphrase, designed to mark oneself as progressive, while engaging little with the realities of what it actually means and meant.
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As this type of slick, ahistorical, and acontextual show becomes ever more common, one wonders what kind of criticality could possibly overthrow their smooth denial of context.
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The context is that of contextless postmodern plunder optics: the ahistorical globalized trend that mixes together anything thematically interesting (or superficially similar), ignoring era and original context.
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Under its ahistorical sway, breathless political observers were able to declare generations of civil rights leaders and other critics of a racialized social order as simply misguided.
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Quite curiously, Williams makes ahistorical history paintings by playing with the postmodern circulation of context-free imagery, mixing free-spirited image accumulation with glints of personal specificity.
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These are tender issues, often calling into question the way statistics may misrepresent, distort, or tell an incomplete and ahistorical story of black women's health and agency.
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Whereas minimalism often claimed to offer ahistorical universal forms, Dean begins with the specific and lets the material shape the work, bottom up, as opposed to top down.
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The entire show feels woefully static, with performers (dressed in ahistorical costumes by Tom Broecker) lined up across the narrow stage like participants in a high-school pageant.
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The project of suppressing the story of racism in this country—and replacing it with ahistorical narratives that obscured the truth—was more entrenched than it is now.
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But rather than seek meaningful explanations, he falls back on ahistorical platitudes: "Strongman politics and boss-man rule, in simplest form, is the story of mankind," he sighs.
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On the very small scale of leading historic house tours, what helped me combat ahistorical statements was to establish trust and rapport with guests from the get-go.
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Mr. Leuchtenburg, a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a leading scholar of the American presidency, said Mr. Trump was essentially ahistorical.
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Ahistorical familiarity with the practices of one's church and some passages from the Christian Bible is not religious literacy, and in isolation may lead to myopia about religion.
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These realities also directly contradict a deeply ideological (and ahistorical) narrative that – short of war – massive defense buildups, bellicosity and tough talk bring authoritarian regimes to their knees.
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And at the same time I was also thinking that the narrative that is told about Africa is still the backward narrative: no innovation, it's ahistorical and stuck.
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It's a fundamentally defensive move, caused by the ahistorical Trump victories in typically Democratic states like Pennsylvania and Michigan combined with the incumbent's faltering numbers in those same states.
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"Some have criticized the doctrine of qualified immunity as ahistorical and contrary to the Founders' Constitution," they wrote, citing recent scholarly works and Willett's past writings on qualified immunity.
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Even so, for the state to sponsor uncritical and ahistorical Confederate memorials is to deny entirely the historical roots of black deprivation—thereby making it conveniently easy to ignore.
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When a novelist embraces history in a creative way, but picks somebody as "ahistorical" as Spinoza, what are they saying about the relationship between the past and the present?
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For much of this time, laconophilia was a relatively benign ahistorical myth, but Spartan admiration unmistakably turned malignant in the late-nineteenth century with the advent of scientific racism.
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This insularity gives "The Water Cure" the cloistered, ahistorical atmosphere of a fairy tale, where elemental dramas play out much as they have since humanity first began telling stories.
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The project plays an exceedingly necessary role in Salem, since, Stevick says, the trials have become a lightning rod for different, often ahistorical, interpretations of what happened in 1693.
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In Soulèvements, an ahistorical exhibition of art made for and about acts of protest, works either make their political agendas self-evident or embed them in their formal properties.
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"As I said previously, it was both disempowering and ahistorical to have Sojourner using only one hand to express herself […] The engaged hands, the open mouth speak volumes," she added.
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Silvio Pons, the president of the Gramsci Foundation in Rome, gave a talk in which he warned against the decontextualised and ahistorical use of Gramsci to score contemporary political points.
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Communities ChangeThe second claim warranting pushback is the false assumption that alt-right "trolling" is equally interchangeable with 4chan and Anonymous, an assumption that posits static, ahistorical framings of both.
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The idea that America was founded predominately as a Christian nation (and that the liberal agenda is pushing a false and ahistorical narrative of secularism) is central to Jeffress's argument.
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"The Museum's decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical," the scholars said in the letter.
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Because Trump does so many things that no past president even considered -- much less did -- the overriding theme of pieces are how atypical and ahistorical what he is doing is.
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The first time I paid a visit to the more well-established presidential residence at 245 Pennsylvania Avenue, I remember being struck by the ahistorical plainness of the West Wing.
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The idea that the random murder of upper-middle-class white men on public transit in 1980s NYC would galvanize a populist movement against white elites is ahistorical and flatly ludicrous.
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No court has ever teased out exactly what the clauses entail, but Mr Trump's reading is both ahistorical (ignoring founding-era dictionary definitions of "emolument" as "profit") and implausibly self-serving.
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It is ahistorical to identify such terrorism only with either the hard right or the hard left, though partisans always seem to do that when it serves their own ideological interests.
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Will my (eventual) kid be forced to sit through the same ahistorical rituals and required to measure the history they are taught at home against the falsehoods they hear in school?
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Berlatsky's claim that she is the "natural outgrowth of an individualistic, reactionary ideology which calls first for internal spiritual renewal rather than systemic cultural and political change," makes an ahistorical argument.
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To a well-trained eye, the film is an ahistorical mess—the Forbidden City, which Mulan saves from destruction at the end of the movie, wasn't built until the 15th century.
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Even Stevick acknowledges that even the more ahistorical elements of Salem's mythology — that it was all about misogyny, say — might be powerful narratives of support for people who need them most.
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The ahistorical attitude toward race in America meant that I was unaware of the poisonous history between conservative evangelical Christianity and the racism baked into the history of some of these denominations.
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"I think that if you're looking for something ahistorical, something unprecedented, at least in our lifetimes, you look at the Republican side where the Republicans are all bailing out now," he said.
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In a way, it's become a subversive version of Schoolhouse Rock, finding that sweet spot where entertainment and learning collide while slyly calling out the ahistorical bullshit we were taught in school.
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Svetlana Boym, a Russian-American philologist, has described this as the "historical emotion" of modernity, and argued that attempts to create a "phantom homeland" through ahistorical restoration would only breed monstrous consequences.
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But firing away with the ahistorical Cei-Rigotti rifle somehow never felt as satisfying as dodging shells launched by an armored train while praying my friend would die and drop his rifle.
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But his fondness for the sweetly evoked Midwest of the early to mid-20th century — he admires Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" and Conrad Richter's "The Awakening Land" trilogy — betrays an ahistorical vision.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — In Carambolages, currently at the Grand Palais, we are plunged into the big, fuzzy, ahistorical world of anti-categories typical of the networked global economic order.
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But for a book that carefully delineates the causes and effects that have shaped the recent Hollywood past, the reduction of movies to "stories told in images on a screen" is surprisingly ahistorical.
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Nuclear Fallout Democratic senators' recent calls for an ahistorical interpretation of the blue slip courtesy stem from a decision they made in 2013 to end the 60-vote filibuster for lower court nominees.
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The scene renders a slightly ahistorical version of an infamous exhibition of "Degenerate Art" that the Nazi party actually mounted in 1937, to display work they blamed for the disintegration of German culture.
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It must be remembered that this is not just a cultural space or a community of co-workers and residents but ahistorical place, very important in understanding the complex history of Downtown Cairo.
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But perhaps my ahistorical conflation of Lam and Rammellzee's Ikonoklast Panzerism into a supercharged "Lammellzee" should itself be the barbed target of criticism for being insufficient in describing Lam's heterogeneous artistic and ethnic situation.
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Instead, what DIS have come up with is an exhibition so vacuous, ideologically apathetic, ahistorical, sarcastic, and dehumanizing, it's a wonder it hasn't been blacklisted solely on account of its conformity to commodity fetishism.
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A seaside bunker rendered in flowing textiles alludes to the state's contested history (California was once part of Mexico after all), while CGI desertscapes pulled from video games portray an ahistorical and virtual fantasy world.
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If those considerations weren't dizzying enough, one might begin to imagine centuries of geopolitical events, cultural exchange and appropriation, violence, diplomacy, hope, and displacement all flattened into an ahistorical and deceptively straightforward multiple-choice question.
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Even the images of the well-preserved negatives perform in new ways in this ahistorical, disjointed series, as a new way of reading grows from the lost memories no longer tethered to Haviv's found images.
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One also wonders if the more ahistorical dance-music fans wouldn't quickly become more historical, and more Detroit-minded, if the festival were to produce some visible extra layers of content — publications, documentaries, panel discussions.
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In truth, Carter, for all his brainpower (he holds an Oxford doctorate in theoretical physics) and decades of experience in Washington, seems to have emerged from the Pentagon surprisingly naïve and ahistorical about American politics.
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D'Souza's clemency came two months before the release of his film Death of A Nation—which portrays Trump as a modern-day Lincoln—and two years after his moronic, ahistorical anti-Clinton movie Hillary's America.
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But since we're bound to keep hashing out these issues for decades to come, we're lucky to have Ann Powers's knowledgeable and humane perspective to ground a conversation that too often devolves into ahistorical polemic.
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Her poems are meant to be spoken — perhaps most meaningfully to small, responsive groups, who are aware that in the ahistorical, everyday-ness of life under capital our ends are as unknown as our origins.
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The Jesus of Last Temptation is in some ways the ahistorical Jesus of most cinematic adaptations — light-haired, blue-eyed — but he's not an otherworldly wise being who seems certain and confident of his calling.
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This ahistorical and lawless view confuses what Congress might just be able to get away with, in the absence of judicial review of its actions, with what Congress is required to do by the Constitution.
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Like many genre specialists, their gift is for obsessive craft: beneath an immaculately glistening surface, they construct a bizarre ahistorical facsimile of studio country-rock that may even have existed but certainly didn't sound like this.
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The Shaman's Vision Quest that Adelaide visits early in the film is a perfect example of cultural erasure: Native Americans being reduced to gross ahistorical stereotypes, while their very real present-day concerns go largely unheard.
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Cast your mind back to 2013 or so, as distant as it seems now, as oddly antiquated and ahistorical as it is, for that was when a nation, if not a continent, went wild for both.
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Viewed as a group, the paintings present conflicted narratives around specific Confederate monuments: ahistorical myths of whiteness and support for white supremacy contrasted with images of art made by black artists in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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After all, Blut und Boden worked so powerfully — and insidiously — as a Nazi ideology not just because it privileged certain bloodlines among others, but also because it harkened back to an ahistorical, nationalist notion of rural idyll.
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Jeff Chang's perceptive book, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, is at once strongly supportive of efforts to promote diversity in education and employment and a critic of the ahistorical nature of the policy.
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It's a world designed purely for ease of running, not any kind of realistic human occupation — the ultimate evolution of global "supermodern" architecture, in which buildings become ahistorical spaces not to live in, but to move through.
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His idea (in chapter six of his book) that what leads to mass shootings in general, and school shootings in particular, is a kind of ahistorical, existential angst, or a "crisis of being" — that's the phrase he uses!
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Worryingly, Boyne's book is now often included in Holocaust-studies curricula at schools, and many teachers say that young readers who first learn about the Holocaust by reading it form a drastically ahistorical impression of what took place.
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While it would be ahistorical to relate Kirchner's works immediately to the catastrophes that would befall Germany in the decades to come, his art is an authentic response to the "intensification of nervous stimulation" prophetically diagnosed by Simmel.
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And the idea that Lee was "an honorable man," instead of an enslaver who put men to the sword to defend the institution of slavery, is so off that it is not merely ahistorical, but a form of intransigence.
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Romanticizing Bush's supposedly charming moments is more than irksome ahistorical blather: It illustrates that in the Trump era, there's no figure so noxious they can't be turned into a Resistance hero and a symbol of a more civil era.
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This same gallery room, which shows off examples of that "fine furniture," could have been designed to be a congenially ahistorical showroom subtly venerating the planter class and privileging visitors' aspirational desires for these objects that represent elevated social status.
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The whole construct is built upon what the writer Richard Yeselson has described as "the ahistorical anti-structural view of Trump as just a GOP screwup," a curse that struck the party rather than a product of its political culture.
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Marçal has little tolerance for this kind of ahistorical thinking: A world where women dominated Wall Street would have had to be so completely different from the actual world that to describe it wouldn't tell us anything about the actual world.
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If that sounds too ahistorical to you, you can still play a more grounded version of the game in the so called "Records" mode where generals are not one-warrior armies and the focus is more squarely on unit tactics.
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LG: I don't agree with all of the panicky "post-truth" arguments we've been hearing, which are generally pretty ahistorical, but one positive effect is to underscore the need for journalists to do anything they can to steer political debate onto firmer ground.
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"It's really ahistorical to point out [problems with] stop and frisk as if the '94 crime bill that pre-dated Bloomberg's mayorship didn't exist," said Tubbs, referencing tough-on-crime legislation that was championed by Joe Biden and supported by Bernie Sanders.
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On the other hand, I remember hearing a boy I taught—a shaggy, basic Bucks County type—who had written a delusional, ahistorical 'position paper' on affirmative action adoringly praise the merits--speed, power,, "swag"--of a star football recruit to his bros.
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But the claim that a "traditional masculinity" encompassing "stoicism" and "self-reliance" necessarily makes this problem worse is mostly ahistorical rubbish — not least because in the actual history of the human race "traditional masculinity" as a single coherent category simply does not exist.
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Lawyers for the Hernández family push back hard against this narrative, claiming that it is ahistorical, and that Brennan's opinion merely brought greater coherence to a long line of cases holding that government actors may be sued when they act outside the law.
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It is about ending the incredible despair that exists in many parts of this country where – as a result of unemployment and low wages, suicide, drugs and alcohol – millions of Americans are now dying, in an ahistorical way, at a younger age than their parents.
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He would never question his place in the world, and would be utterly mystified if someone tried to explain that experiencing racism wasn't just a slur, but also a feeling of isolation, in which you believe yourself to be ahistorical, a person without a people.
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It's an especially odd choice to locate the game within a fictional setting that is somehow even more parochial and ahistorical than most popular versions of the middle ages, which are often keenly interested in the clashes and interchanges between cultural and religious groups.
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But as much as the worst aspirational food bloggers, Gwyneth Paltrow, and other ahistorical pastoralists would like us to think that making, say, homemade pasta with blistered tomatoes and shrimp on a random weeknight is easy and fast, it's not for all of us.
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I'm guessing that at that point, he saw his opening — an opportunity to shackle the right of habeas corpus to a theory of originalism, as rigid as it is ahistorical, and to perhaps inspire some justices to take a fresh look back at Boumediene.
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To presume otherwise, for example, that the Korean dictator-in-perpetuity, who, after a banner ballistic year in 2017, had a sudden change of heart in 2018 and decided to be a nice guy going forward would be a rarefied form of ahistorical self-hypnosis.
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Tlaib appears to make ahistorical claims about Palestinians providing a "safe haven" for Jews fleeing Europe ahead of the establishment of the modern state of Israel, despite deep-seated opposition at the time to Jewish settlement there and the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Members of the industry who gathered in the thin, mountain air were largely willing to look past the film's curiously ahistorical and manipulative telling of Nat Turner's slave rebellion—instead they saw something that could be used to exploit hungry black audiences and guilty white audiences alike.
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Of these, Polynesia — a triangle drawn from New Zealand to Hawaii to the remote Chilean territory of Rapa Nui — has most compelled the world's attention, typically as a projection of repressed Western desire: an ahistorical haven peopled by flower-bedecked voluptuaries from a Paul Gauguin canvas.
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Too often in our modern day we see an ahistorical narrative being applied to the civil rights movement that imagines it as having ended in triumph, its primary objectives accomplished with the end of forced segregation and the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts.
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" Though there are verses in the Qur'an that acknowledge sexualities other than heterosexuality—MPV employs them in its work—Aslan said such arguments require the belief that scripture is "living and breathing, reinterpreted every generation" and not an ahistorical document "without context, fixed in place for all time.
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Because the challenge is, we have an ahistorical discussion of most of the challenges in our society without an understanding that all the way up through the sixties and seventies there was cautiously racist policies that were creating a lot of the concentrated problems we have right now.
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But Awkwafina, of "Crazy Rich Asians," showed up in a very cool women's suit, that was shimmery and pink and there was a bow, and maybe the whole thing underscored the fact that ideas about sorting clothing (and people!) into gender baskets are silly and at least ahistorical.
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Formed in 23 in the interest of both poking fun and paying homage to the sort of tonedeaf "exotica" of lounge musicians Martin Denny and Les Baxter, the trio sought to interpolate this petri dish of ahistorical kitsch into something more inspired by technology as a vehicle for cultural exchange.
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In her comments, however, Tlaib did appear to make ahistorical claims about Palestinians providing a "safe haven" for Jews fleeing Europe ahead of the establishment of the modern state of Israel, despite deep-seated opposition at the time to Jewish settlement there and the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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This is wildly ahistorical, but for me and millions of other readers it both passes the Superman test and is a big part of what makes the books so enjoyable, and the main character so easy to like (as the real-life Cromwell, apparatchik and bureaucrat and religious ideologue, definitely wasn't).
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Moreover, the liberal overcorrection of the ahistorical "one France" serves as a thin barrier to confronting the reality of centuries of black French citizens being categorically discriminated against, at all levels of society — from being obstructed in acquiring suitable housing, employment, and education for generations to being racially profiled for identity and nationality checks.
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I've never seen a game about samurai, completely ahistorical fantasy samurai at that, where two human beings playing a game with each other reenacted a scene from an Akira Kurosawa movie, simply because they were that good at the video game and the video game was that good at being an Akira Kurosawa movie.
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The list is familiar: in one baffling interview after another, the scorn he showed for many women writers; his representation of Islam as a medieval religion full of violence, which I always thought had its origins in his being raised as a diasporic Hindu; his swift, often ahistorical, dismissal of formerly colonized nations as inferior.
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His erasure of the Jewish ethos and prophetic teachings — which are as prescriptive for leading a moral and ethical life as the lessons of Jesus and which predate Jesus by many centuries — and the way Mr. Wehner leapfrogs from paganism to Christianity without so much as a nod to its Judaic heritage seems both ahistorical and insensitive.
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Though the "traditional" family of the time may never have really existed—social historian Stephanie Coontz calls the nuclear, middle-class, breadwinner-father-who-knows-best model "an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in the same time and place"—it has continued to hold considerable sway in the world of scripted television.
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There's no particular level of inequality that is inevitable, and it's both pessimistic and ahistorical — two qualities I don't tend to associate with Graham, who tends towards optimism and a strong grasp of history — to believe the drive towards technological progress is so flimsy that modest changes to the tax code or social programs will derail it.
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For one thing, that's an ahistorical argument: Superman — like Captain America — was designed by Jewish artists in response to the rise of Nazism, and was famously depicted punching Hitler before the US entered World War II. For another thing, there are a lot of superhero narratives out today that subvert the inherent fascism of the superhero fantasy.
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The reasons should range from the usual theorizing about the power of social media to the thornier question of how the struggles of Native Americans can be excerpted from any broader American narrative and placed within an ahistorical context in which the usual, impossible questions that are asked of all activists can be replaced with thoughtless sentimentality.
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"Trump has offered a slew of inconsistent and ahistorical defenses to his decision, including that the Kurds did not help the US during World War II.In the course of about a week, Trump went from rejecting the notion he abandoned the Kurds while calling them "special people and wonderful fighters" to stating that the situation has "nothing to do" with the US and that the Kurds are "no angels.
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