Native American journalist Jacqueline Keeler criticized Park for shifting discussion away from the Redskins name, and for not promoting hashtags to protest racist sports team names.
"We want to shift the discussion away from the quantity of calories, although they are impacted with this change, to talking about the quality of the calories in yogurt, like how much protein it delivers".
As a result, Clinton and the Democratic party of the 1990s played a pivotal role in helping to shift the discussion away from "systemic racism", as it had been in the 1960s and 1970s, back to a focus on the culture and family structure of African Americans as the root of black inequality.
After Mike Huckabee and evangelical groups shifted the discussion away from the millions Chick-fil-A gives to hate groups to a story about free speech and about opinions on same-sex marriage (which half the country still doesn't support), there was no forceful, unified response from national LGBT groups.
The social psychology of that discussion greatly repays consideration, but I wanted to shift the aesthetic discussion away from the concepts of grandeur and artifice and toward the idea of style, which, I think, is as central to a film such as "Somewhere" as it is to works of grand artifice by Visconti or Minnelli and to even smaller-scale independent films of many sorts.
From Kaine's smooth introductory address in Florida, it seems that the Democratic ticket wants to shift the political discussion away from jobs and trade, where they represent the status quo, and towards modest common sense gun regulation and comprehensive immigration reform, which could give the impression of breaking with the status quo.
I think the other thing is that we were concerned, I suppose, that this whole shifting of the discussion away from the real issue -- that this is a systemic problem at all campuses -- was going to make the way this film landed in culture a little more problematic, but I think actually the opposite happened.
A gold medal might also help the N.B.A. shift the national discussion away from referee gambling scandals and back toward the greatness of its players.
Such a discussion would help shift attention away from her 2002 vote and allow her to draw a contrast with the Republicans' empty rhetoric.
His objective is to "shift the discussion on transport away from the narrow concerns that have dominated previous [mayoral] campaigns" and promote a clear, comprehensive vision for this vital area of mayoral responsibility.
