Conservative political discourse centers on "F" words: Faith, Family, Freedom, and the Flag.
Yet, the ramifications entailed in questioning our speciesist assumptions are tremendous: Our entire political discourse centers on how policies will affect humans.
This discourse centers on the theme that only 'bad' girls and 'monster' mothers, who are morally problematic, smoke marijuana; they are not presented as women but instead represented as stereotypes.
For the past two hundred years, much public discourse has centered on the relative merits of the government versus the private sector.
The dominant political discourse of 2008 centered on an improbable question: Could a black man overcome decades' worth of conservative fear mongering about scary, criminal, lazy black people and win a majority of voters?
The discourse has largely centered on fears that these drugs are dangerous, whether it's because they're harmful to the students' health or because the "epidemic" threatens the integrity of higher learning in a similar fashion to steroids in professional sports.
In the conversation around mass incarceration, the contemporary political discourse often centers on the notion that if we simply release, or reduce the sentences of, all of the nonviolent drug offenders, we will be able to solve the problem of our enormous prison population.
This discourse also centers on representations of mothers, which is an additional layer of gendered stigmatization ascribed to women; women who are parents and who use marijuana or other substances are often vilified (Reid, Greaves, and Poole 2008).
By this stage of its evolution, public discourse on nuclear waste centered on getting rid of it.
Hopes for new cures and research progress, which dominate debates around other forms of cancer, are often absent in discourses centering on lung cancer.
