Running against City Hall and stigmatizing government workers has become such a habit of American political discourse that reversing such talk is an immense challenge.
We know that the international discourse about sustainability will not reverse decades of inaction, that governments will not likely guide us from economic and environmental disaster into a new world order of hope and quality of life.
Olshansky, for instance, says that it's too soon for the term "reversing aging" to be used in scientific discourse given that no one knows whether the aging process can even be slowed (see Olshansky Viewpoint and Olshansky Perspective).
After all, this is a voluntary move on SeaWorld's part, and even if Bloom's bill passes, could easily be reversed in Florida and Texas as soon as public discourse against orca captivity dies down.
While the BNP has met electoral disaster and the EDL remains a street-fighting fringe, we must stay alert to the uses of "reverse racism" – which, along with increasingly acceptable anti-immigrant discourse, provides false explanations for worsening economic conditions.
Indeed, just as the term affirmative action has made its way into Korean political discourse, borrowed directly from the United States, so has its rhetorical opposite, reverse discrimination.
While many of us from the BME (black and minority ethnic) sector are trying to push that discourse forward, I fear that Tanika Gupta's perceptions represent a reverse of that thinking.
In fact, the "reverse" has largely been dropped from "reverse racism"; in today's mainstream political discourse, "racism" regularly refers to anti-white racism.
Apparently, women can't both point out systemic sexism that excludes us from the public discourse and celebrate a women-only space ― the idea is that it's "reverse sexism".
Momentum continues to build inside and outside the halls of Congress to reverse course on the single-minded quest to cut Social Security benefits which has dominated our political discourse for years.
