Many could adopt the rationale of accommodating the behavior rather than condoning the behavior as a more palatable and less controversial stance.
In a series of video and social media statements, Loesch questioned liberals "freaking out" over the ad and further argued that liberals have committed their share of violence, which she says her ad condemns, rather than condones.
They add to our understanding of what it is to be human, rather than implicitly condone the stripping away of humanity in the name of art.
Williams proposed that the board consider whether teachers should present materials that emphasize "positive aspects of the United States" and respect for authority, free enterprise and individual rights, rather than encouraging or condoning "civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law".
According to Samantha Lachman writing in the Huffington Post, one of the member's "proposed that the board consider whether teachers should present materials that emphasize "positive aspects of the United States" and respect for authority, free enterprise and individual rights, rather than encouraging or condoning "civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law".".
That being said, metal is often more aggressive and intense than more mainstream-oriented "radio rock", and lyrics often touch on more controversial topics such as war or violence (albeit usually as a form of social criticism rather than a vehicle to condone such things).
These writers move beyond the well-intentioned but inadequate notion of "color-blind casting," or the theory that race should be irrelevant to casting decisions; they ask how opera can approach canonical works in ways that illuminate and critique their racial biases rather than eliding and implicitly condoning them.
In The Female Eunuch, Greer said what women had previously been too polite, too nice, too deferential (and basically too afraid) to say, even though it was obvious: that the vast and overwhelming majority of all of the abuse of women is perpetrated by men, and that this abuse is common and not rare, endemic and not exceptional, excused and condoned rather than condemned and abhorred.
The reasonable intentions of some index developers have been sullied by those condoning, rather than confronting, the indefensible interpretational slide from indices reporting "covariance fit" to reporting "the acceptability of the model".
Even accepting the judge's claim that he forwarded the email for its political (anti-Obama views) rather than its racist content, he condoned it.
