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- adj. rare Uncivil(ised) and in opposition to civil society; opposed to or lacking the features of civil society (for example, opposing or simply lacking civil liberties).
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“The present Republican party is made up of old "Dixiecrats" who were anti-civil rights, anti-change, anti-everthing as a closet Klansman should be.”
“As a senator, he received a 25 percent rating from the ACLU, indicating a strong anti-civil rights record.”
The Huffington Post: David A. Love: Abortion Foes Don't Care About Women's Rights or Civil Rights
“Cain knows full well that a jibe here and there at blacks for their supposed slavish loyalty to the GOP won't change anything as long as the GOP remains the racial code spewing, government and labor bashing, and anti-civil rights party it has relentlessly been the past half century.”
The Huffington Post: Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Cain and the GOP Can't De-Brainwash Blacks
“Limbaugh's not anti-civil partnerships, so maybe I can have a dialogue about that.”
The Huffington Post: Elton John Talks About His Experience With Rush Limbaugh
“And it is true today that the GOP, is built around that same anti-civil rights demographic.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
“If you have examples to the contrary (other than anti-civil rights filibusters) please let us know. yo-z Says:”
“Commission on Civil Rights (and former witness in support of nominees John Roberts and Samuel Alito), and Linda Chavez, a former Reagan and Bush I Administration official and the head of a leading anti-civil rights organization.”
Wonk Room » What The GOP Witness List Reveals About Their Anti-Sotomayor Strategy
“And that doesn't include his continuation of the Bush anti-civil liberties initiatives, the targeting of whistleblowers, and the aggressive pursuit of independent news sources.”
“Unless, of course, they just like to misuse a single line from “I Have a Dream” to cynically hide their embrace of anti-civil rights backlash and white nationalism.”
“Bleh: Some terrorists also tend to be anti-gay, pro-religion, anti-civil liberties, anti-Clinton, etc, etc ...”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
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