At first the Deavors seem so earnest that The Incredibles 2 felt like it was drifting towards tech-billionaire apologism.
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Outside criticism is dismissed as a product of liberal bias in media and academia, or as rank apologism for the Obama administration.
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In France, the twin extremes of Islamist apologism and fascist reaction grow ever more intertwined, like thorny weeds in a Grimm fairytale.
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But since then his views have been increasingly amplified at home and abroad — most disturbingly by President of the United States, whose rank apologism for white-nationalist thinking makes King's brazenness feel so much more urgent and alarming.
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The brilliant New York Times editor Bari Weiss was unreasonably vilified back in 2017 when she pointed out Women's March leader Linda Sarsour's long history of apologism for political Islamism, including tweets expressing a violent fantasy about Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a survivor of female genital mutilation who has embraced secularism.
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" (Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror in 22017 for publishing fabricated photos of British soldiers torturing an Iraqi prisoner.) After Morgan wrote that the "superior, dismissive arrogance of rabid Remain/Clinton supporters like [Rowling] is, of course, precisely why both campaigns lost," the author shot back: "The fact-free, amoral, bigotry-apologism of celebrity toady Piers Morgan is, of course, why it's so delicious to see him told to f— off.
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The New York Times Glitter bombers have frequently been motivated by, though not limited to, their targets' rape apologism or opposition to same-sex marriage. Some legal officials argue glitter bombing is technically assault and battery. It is possible for glitter to enter the eyes or nose and cause damage to the cornea or other soft tissues potentially irritating them or leading to infection, depending on the size of the glitter. Whether a prosecutor would pursue the charges depends on a number of factors.
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Michael Shterenshis Tamerlane and the Jews Routledge p. 38 Timur was also noted for attacking the Shia with Sunni apologism, while at other times he attacked Sunnis on religious ground as well.Virani, Shafique N. The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A Search for Salvation (New York: Oxford University Press), 2007, p. 114. In contrast, Timur held the Seljuk Sultan Ahmad Sanjar in high regard for attacking the Ismailis at Alamut, while Timur's own attack on Ismailis at Anjudan was equally brutal.
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The group's spokesman, Nas Ishmael, stressed that they criticize the ideology of the Islamic doctrine and "do not stand for any kind of anti-Muslim bigotry". Muhammad Syed, Sarah Haider and Heina Dadabhoy speaking at the American Atheist Convention 2015. In a 2014 article, The New York Times took note of EXMNA motto: "No Bigotry and No Apologism" and described the group as welcoming. The BBC affirmed this by mentioning that the group is inclusive and has members from over 40 different ethnic backgrounds.
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A representative of Showa History Research Institute, he frequently joined controversies surrounding Japan's wartime past, particularly the denialism or minimization of the Nanking Massacre of 1937-38. He completely rejected the Chinese government's claim of 300,000 death toll as mere propaganda, giving his own estimate of around 10,000 deaths. He was also a supporter of the film, The Truth about Nanjing, containing apologism for Japan's wartime past, and which denied the existence of the Nanking Massacre. He detested what he viewed as "left leaning" mass media, especially The Asahi Shimbun newspaper and NHK public broadcasting organisation.
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Paul Aussaresses was condemned for "apologism for war crimes" because he had justified the use of torture, claiming it had helped to save lives.condamnation du général Aussaresses pour "apologie de crimes de guerre" , Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH, Human Rights League), February 2002. Although Aussaresses claimed that torture was an efficient way to fight against what he saw as FLN terrorism, recent historical research demonstrates that, contrary to the popular "ticking time bomb scenario", torture was not used for short-term intelligence purposes. Instead, the aim of torture was not to make people talk but to affect the armed groups as a whole and to break the civilian population's morale.
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If the classical economists talked about the "naturalness" of price-levels, this was ultimately a theoretical apologism; they could not reconcile their labour theory of value with the theory of the distribution of capital. They assumed a market balance, without proving how it could exist. The general theory behind the concept of natural prices was that the free play of markets would, through successive adjustments in the trading process, "naturally" converge on price levels at which sellers could cover their costs and make a normal profit, while buyers could afford to buy products; with the effect, that relative labour requirements would be genuinely proportional to relative prices. Yet classical political economy provided no credible theory of how this process could actually occur.
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AskHistorians has received praise for its commitment to unbiased and well sourced history, and for making academic history accessible to a broad audience, with the American Historical Association stating that "AskHistorians is, in effect, a training ground for historical thinking facilitated by the moderators and experts". Many of AskHistorians' most popular posts deal with common historical myths and misconceptions, such as the theory that lead caused the fall of the Roman Empire. AskHistorians has been noted for its commitment to combating Holocaust denial, in comparison with the more lax policies of Facebook. The moderators of AskHistorians are outspoken about their policy of banning all holocaust deniers and Nazi sympathisers from the platform, and preventing Nazi apologism or manipulation of historical facts surrounding The Holocaust.
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