When you tell African-American college graduates not to make excuses based on their upbringing, you are telling them that a social critique of poverty is not legitimate.
When this model was undone, fighting was impelled by control of territory, rather than propagandistic excuses based on differences in religious observance or grievances in past wars and conquests.
He throws in his usual talking points about "strengthening the middle class," as if to say, "Trust me, I'm not a president for the poor". And then he repeats that charter-school refrain, "No excuses". When you tell African-American college graduates not to make excuses based on their upbringing, you are telling them that a social critique of poverty is not legitimate.
The jury selection, which began last week with about 500 prospective jurors filling out questionnaires about themselves and their views on capital punishment, moved to the courtroom yesterday as the judge, prosecution and defense began interviewing the more than 300 who were not excused based on their written answers.
Here I was, thinking, logically, I have a clear medical excuse based on your Doctor's advice, so clearly some of my absences would be excused, right?
Furthermore, it fails to distinguish between the common appeals to excuses from obligatory action based on the particular difficulty or risk involved in its performance and the general exemption from supererogatory action that is sometimes easy and possible for everybody (like doing a small favor or showing forgiveness).
"The Japanese forcefully detaining the Chinese based on the excuse of its domestic laws was an illegal action".
The proposed European Union law is likely to be based on the Norwegian one, and the idea behind both is simple: to take away any excuse for a company to avoid gender equality.
