Self-appointed

Self-appointed civil rights defenders support rules that keep Asian kids

The New Chinese Exclusion Act Charles C. Johnson 2011

Self-appointed spokescritters for hispanic rights, however, see their pool of supporters drying up if the border is tightened.

Language and that “controversial” Arizona immigration law 2010

Self-appointed student leaders run around the thickening assembly of students with battery-operated megaphones trying to get others to listen, trying to instill order and decorum.

Archive 2009-05-04 philip j cunningham 2009

Self-appointed student leaders run around the thickening assembly of students with battery-operated megaphones trying to get others to listen, trying to instill order and decorum.

RECLAIMING THE MAY FOURTH SPIRIT philip j cunningham 2009

Self-appointed pressure groups arrogate unto themselves a patina of rectitude, which is mostly utterly undeserved.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Self-appointed mental health advocates very often try to establish themselves as caring by throwing out these scattershot accusations that somebody, somewhere is advocating a callous and trivializing just-suck-it-up sort of response to serious emotional suffering, regardless of whether or not anyone has actually said anything of the sort.

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – November – 10 2008

Self-appointed and - educated environmentalists need to do something that matters rather than keep up the mantra of "the sky is falling."

What Makes an Animal Endangered? 2008

Self-appointed mental health advocates very often try to establish themselves as caring by throwing out these scattershot accusations that somebody, somewhere is advocating a callous and trivializing just-suck-it-up sort of response to serious emotional suffering, regardless of whether or not anyone has actually said anything of the sort.

On sound and fury 2008

Self-appointed keepers of baseball's lore and legend like sportswriters.

Mitchell Report Fails to Step Up to Plate with a Plan 2007

Self-appointed intermediaries between a discredited khale (long ago) and the redemptive modernity of sweswi (now), these men and women embraced me as a sign that Magude would be rebuilt on a gently colonial vision of the past, under the auspices of well-meaning white folk who would dress up their modernity with pretty native things.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005