Through the addition of these new scenes and people to the five- and the ten-dollar bills, the U.S. Treasury Department is not only validating the Lincoln Memorial and U.S. Treasury Building as legitimate sites for dissent, it is legitimizing the power of protest and its role in strengthening our democracy.
It is legitimizing a forum for disputing the essence of democracy, handing Holocaust deniers a global platform and manufacturing the means to demonize Israel in the interests of those states bent on the Jewish state's destruction.
This drives me nuts, because if there is one thing conservatives should not be doing, it is legitimizing the idea that merely being exposed to different points of view is the same thing as harassment.
The problem is, under the new law, the one or two who would do it are legitimized.
But violence isn't just legitimized at base camp: it's legitimized by the Obama administration's failure to hold accountable those who took the country into an illegal war of aggression.
For the remaining participants, when violence was considered unintentional, it was legitimized as part of their illness and in this way decreased the perceived level of threat and harm; some nurses would define these actions not as violence per se, but instead acts of self-defence on the part of the patient.
But the problem is, by even stating this opinion, it's legitimizing the point-of-view that gay people are not to be treated the same.
But the problem is, by even stating this opinion, it's legitimizing the point of view that gay people are not to be treated the same as straight people.
As for the many "Glee" naysayers who've criticized the musical series' depiction of LGBT characters and themes, she added, "They think it's legitimizing a lifestyle that leads to ruin and tears at the fabric of society, and I think that we're finding that's just hogwash".
The chapters in I Samuel are sometimes called the "Saul" source because it is in them that Saul's charismatic leadership is legitimized in the form of kingship.
