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* Imposing an arbitrary differential treatment of people to the advantage of some and the disadvantage of others (as in ascriptive discrimination)
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The former hold that certain groups whose memberships are defined by what are sometimes called ascriptive characteristics, simply by virtue of being those sorts of groups, have a unilateral (claim -) right to secede.
Secession Buchanan, Allen 2007
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The rest of the Democratic base is ideological, not ascriptive, in nature.
Lincoln Mitchell: What Is the Democratic Party Base? Lincoln Mitchell 2010
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The rest of the Democratic base is ideological, not ascriptive, in nature.
Lincoln Mitchell: What Is the Democratic Party Base? Lincoln Mitchell 2010
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The only ascriptive identity-based groups that reliably vote Democratic, at least at the national level, are Jews, gays and lesbians and African Americans.
Lincoln Mitchell: What Is the Democratic Party Base? Lincoln Mitchell 2010
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The only ascriptive identity-based groups that reliably vote Democratic, at least at the national level, are Jews, gays and lesbians and African Americans.
Lincoln Mitchell: What Is the Democratic Party Base? Lincoln Mitchell 2010
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Progressivism has slowly gained a dangerous hold on our freedoms and our government, and rather than take us into a twenty first Century of devaluing the ascriptive groups of race, ethnicity, and gender [neo-feminism], we are more divisive and apart than ever before.
Progressivism Challenges Liberal Democracy « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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The only ascriptive identity-based groups that reliably vote Democratic, at least at the national level, are Jews, gays and lesbians and African Americans.
Lincoln Mitchell: What Is the Democratic Party Base? Lincoln Mitchell 2010
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The rest of the Democratic base is ideological, not ascriptive, in nature.
Lincoln Mitchell: What Is the Democratic Party Base? Lincoln Mitchell 2010
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The key political unit is not the individual citizen who forms voluntary associations and works with fellow citizens regardless of race, sex, or national origin, but the ascriptive group (racial, ethnic, or gender) into which one is born.
Progressivism Challenges Liberal Democracy « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
qroqqa commented on the word ascriptive
One of the two kinds of relationship of a predicative complement to its predicand after the verb 'be'. An ascriptive use ascribes a property to the predicand: for example, 'Mary is tall', 'Bill is a linguist'. The other kind of use is the specifying use.
July 29, 2008