Meanwhile, the Alex Lennox narrative moves back in time to relate his university career, his falling in love, his flourishing career, his difficulties equating his socialism with his prosperity under Margaret Thatcher and the eventual path that leads to his car crash.
Booker also walked back his equating of private equity attacks with GOP attacks on Jeremiah Wright, Obama's controversial former pastor.
She resents his equating the problems of being homosexual with those of black women; he's put off by her trivializing view of gay men.
His equating of the "Unite the Right" marchers with the counter-protesters; his claim that there were some "really fine people" on both sides; the comparison he drew between the Founding Fathers and the leaders of the Confederacy — these were all Trump's own handiwork.
The film does not delve into some of Mr. Chomsky's more controversial post-9/11 statements, like his equating of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with the 1998 American bombing of a Sudanese pharmaceuticals factory, or his characterization of the United States war against the Taliban as genocidal.
Not a fan of net neutrality: Trump's major gripe with net neutrality seems to involve his equating the concept with censorship.
But given Shaftesbury's realist view of beauty — and his equating truth with beauty — no such thing follows on his account.
"It could be an inadvertent change, or it could be a response to the criticism from many of us after McCutcheon for his equating donors with constituents," Hasen said.
While West continues to argue that his equating progressivism to communism is simply an exercise in examining political ideology, his decision to label his colleagues as "communists" hasn't come without consequences beyond a verbal rebuke from Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass).. Earlier this week, West was booted from an NAACP event at which he was previously set to deliver the keynote address.
It is full of moments that are quotable because they are so relatable, from Alvy shutting down an art-house cinema snob by conjuring Marshall McLuhan out of thin air to his speech equating his and Annie's relationship with a dead shark.
