What's peculiar in the Indian instance is the notion of competitive intolerance, due to which each side tries to outdo the other in demanding restrictions, narrowing the discourse.
They may be on the left of the political spectrum but their prevailing political convictions often merge illiberalism and intolerance for dissent with a particular narrow and dogmatic discourse and ideology of social and economic justice that is exclusionary of those who do not uncritically share all its perspectives and convictions.
A singular focus on abortion as the only pro-life issue has also severely narrowed our national discourse about moral values in the public square.
It narrows the open discourse on policy, it empowers a small group of unelected and largely unknown individuals, and it reduces the role that the public can play in shaping the presidential agenda.
How could I do justice to this life-changing experience through the narrow framework of academic discourse?
They are enforced by a narrow and retentive public discourse, dominated by the corporate media and the BBC, which ignores or stifles new ideas, grovels to the elite and ostracises the excluded, keeping this nation in a state of arrested development.
And now, although repression of open debate has greatly dissipated since the first months after 9/11, the narrow range of political discourse on Afghanistan is essential to the Obama administration's reported plan to double U.S. troop deployments in that country within a year.
Çavdar stresses that one of the main achievements of the protest movement was to shatter the narrow identities imposed by state discourse: "Gezi brought down the walls between conservative Muslims and secularists, nationalist Turks and Kurds, Alevis and Sunnis, men and women.
It is not in itself a new problem, as scientific discourse often attributes narrow meanings to words which may be more broadly applied in common usage, and teachers need to clearly distinguish between scientific theories of biological and chemical evolution, and the paradigm of evolution as an overarching conceptual framework.
Such a discourse cultivates a narrow conception of justice that ignores the societal reverberations and total human costs of policies like the death penalty and mass incarceration.
