Like the master himself, Cruz has demonstrated a notable aptitude for expressing disagreement through denigration and for extravagant, crackpot promises.
The union's general secretary, Chris Keate,s blamed the culture of "macho management" and the "denigration" of teachers for allowing bullying to flourish.
"Who made it acceptable for hip-hop to be a forum for the denigration of black women?" Ms. Clarke said.
Although any medication can be inappropriately administered, the wholesale denigration of psychotropic medication for this population is misplaced.
Mr. Muhammad was ousted from the Nation of Islam for his denigration of Jews, whom he once called "bloodsuckers".
Even when he later lurched to the left and introduced his brand of "Arab socialism", his ideologues drew upon Islamic history to bestow religious legitimacy on an ideology known for its denigration of religion as the opium of the poor.
He was charged and tried for "public denigration of Turkish identity" under Article 301 of the penal code later that year, but the case was subsequently dropped in the wake of international outrage.
In August 2005, Pamuk was charged under Article 301 of the penal code with "public denigration of Turkish identity", for saying in a Swiss newspaper interview that "30,000 Kurds and a million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it".
The justification for the denigration of women goes all the way back to the story of Adam and Eve in the Bible.
As disgraceful as the denigration of a man for ideological purposes is, it was the systematic distortion of truth on the most widely used information website that especially angered and frightened readers.
