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  2. Antidisestablishmentarianism - Wikipedia

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    Arms of the See of Canterbury, governing the Church of England. Antidisestablishmentarianism (/ ˌ æ n t i d ɪ s ɪ ˌ s t æ b l ɪ ʃ m ə n ˈ t ɛər i ə n ɪ z əm / ⓘ, US also / ˌ æ n t aɪ-/ ⓘ) is a position that advocates that a state church (the "established church") should continue to receive government patronage, rather than be disestablished (i.e., be separated from the ...

  3. The English word antidisestablishmentarianism (UK / ˌ æ n t i d ɪ s ɪ ˌ s t æ b l ɪ ʃ m ə n ˈ t ɛər i ə n ɪ z əm / ⓘ US / ˌ æ n t aɪ-/ ⓘ) is notable for its unusual length of 28 letters and 12 syllables, and is one of the longest words in the English language. [1]

  4. Stereotypes of white Americans - Wikipedia

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    [18] [19] Before the 1980s, ethnic groups such as the Irish, Italians, Armenians, and Polish people were portrayed in popular media and culture in a negative fashion. [20] Stereotypes of West Virginians and Alabamians include incest and inbreeding. [21] Poor whites in the Appalachian region have often been stereotyped as hillbillies. [22]

  5. Dehumanization - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] A practical definition refers to it as the viewing and the treatment of other people as though they lack the mental capacities that are commonly attributed to humans. [4] In this definition, every act or thought that regards a person as "less than" human is dehumanization. [5] Dehumanization is one form of incitement to genocide. [6]

  6. Negative liberty - Wikipedia

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    Negative liberty is primarily concerned with freedom from external restraint and contrasts with positive liberty (the possession of the power and resources to fulfill one's own potential). The distinction originated with Bentham , was popularized by T. H. Green and Guido De Ruggiero , and is now best known through Isaiah Berlin 's 1958 lecture ...

  7. Deviance (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Any definition of virtue rests on an opposing idea of vice: There can be no good without evil and no justice without crime." [3] Deviance defines moral boundaries, people learn right from wrong by defining people as deviant. A serious form of deviance forces people to come together and react in the same way against it.

  8. Talk:Antidisestablishmentarianism - Wikipedia

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    Interesting; I just googled, though I didn't x-link with the rags just named or any 60s context, and now gather that the '60s use, or "how it got repeated into the '70s", so to speak, was a malapropism; by the late '70s peple would say something to the effect of "he is/are you antidisestablishmentarian" to mean "are you/he is anti-establishment ...

  9. Negative utilitarianism - Wikipedia

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    Negative utilitarianism is a form of negative consequentialism that can be described as the view that people should minimize the total amount of aggregate suffering, or that they should minimize suffering and then, secondarily, maximize the total amount of happiness.