Yet in a country where opposition figures are systematically shut out of the media, Blinkin has more exposure than he can handle.
Since he'd got sick, since he'd started frequenting online illness forums, particularly the terminal-illness ones, where the goddam sunny side of life was systematically shut down, this had become obvious.
Weitz's predicament sheds light on what activists have increasingly identified as a major injustice in the burgeoning pot industry: underground growers and drug dealers have been systematically shut out, and victims of the war on drugs have been unable to participate in the booming marijuana economy.
The audience has been systematically shut off and dumbed down to such a degree that talk shows are analyzing not the phony wizard, but instead, white trash "reality" celebrities and their Nazi tattoos.
"Zinke said, 'My boss [Donald Trump] says that these rural counties have been systematically shut down and it's time for them to go back to work,'" Lyman told HuffPost.
Unions have won important gains toward gender and racial equity in the workplace; public sector unions in particular have created avenues into the middle class for people who have been systematically shut out and discriminated against, especially people of color.
"The insinuation that we are systematically shutting out one racial group is both unfair and inaccurate," Kennedy Center spokesman John Dow said Friday in an emailed statement, adding that Kennedy Center president Michael Kaiser "has been a strong and consistent advocate of Latino and Hispanic artists, programming and cultural values, as evidenced by his entire tenure".
"Aside from the obvious catastrophic affect on nightlife businesses and other local businesses who thrive off the late night economy, these laws are systematically shutting down the once vibrant inner city center and causing a mass exodus of the city's creative young people young people that are integral to the development of a healthy and vibrant economy in the years to come".
When Virginia Woolf wrote in "Three Guineas" that "as a woman, I have no country" and that any war fought for "our" country would only be "to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share, to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share," women in Europe and America were in fact systematically shut out of positions of power.
But that doesn't matter to Google, which is now systematically shutting down products which don't fulfill its core missions: search, social, ads.
