Not fond of "Our Crowd," Ms. Guggenheim was the ultimate inside outsider as a gallery owner before she was legitimized and championed in her art world efforts by her father's brother, Uncle Solomon.
"In the process, she de-legitimized the legitimate claims of the 12-year-old victim and then slandered the victim to justify her tactics," Akin said.
"The fact that they're flashing gang signs back and forth at each other, showing solidarity with the gangs, she's legitimizing what they're doing, she's legitimizing these people who are killing our children in Minneapolis".
Her experience in Seattle, she says, "legitimizes the stand I have been making and the platform I have stood on for more than 15 years -- that big business has to change".
"She is legitimizing these people.
Akin referenced that comment in his criticism of Clinton, saying she "de-legitimized" the claims of a rape victim by defending an alleged child rapist.
You go on to collapse womanhood and femininity and contend that by claiming blackness and womanhood as outside the cultural property of white gay men, as Mannie does, she "de-legitimizes gay men and trans-women".
However, she is not being legitimized in her role, but being used to fool voters into thinking that this symbolism reflects their policies and also being used to pit race against gender -- or to make voters think that one isn't inclusive and/or aligned with the other.
The disease, she knew, was most likely terminal, which was one reason she felt so blessed, so legitimized, to be included in a program with the track champion Gail Devers and the soccer star Mia Hamm, among others.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan's interim leader, Roza Otunbayeva, declared victory on Sunday in a constitutional referendum that she hopes will legitimize her position as president and help stabilize the country, but in a sign of continuing disarray in her government, the director of the Central Election Committee said too few ballots had been counted to call the vote.
