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  • “Anyone who pointed out that he lacked relevant experience, never having managed in England or at international level, was labelled a luddite Little Englander.”

    House of Dumb

  • “Did I really just get called a luddite by a guy who wants to roll economic policy back to the child labor days?”

    Buffalo Pundit

  • “Before you accuse me of being a "luddite," let me tell you I get it.”

    The Huffington Post: An Open Letter to @Ev and @Biz

  • “But aside from the public relations issues that come with being branded a "luddite," there are real dollars and cents issues at play, as well.”

    Matt Lewis: Let (WaPo) Reporters Really Tweet!

  • “With my husband's dismissal of the idea as "luddite", I decided to go to my in-laws weekly family lunch instead.”

    Kirsten Dirksen: Barter Markets: Can Trading Beef for a Backpack Keep Consumption in Check?

  • “Abbott, a "luddite" for appearing to have nothing to do with his party's technology policies, on a day in which the Canberra press gallery also criticised the Opposition Leader on the issue.”

    ARN Daily

  • “Characterising a movement that has a massive web presence including multiple Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Youtube accounts as "luddite" does very little for your credibility as "someone who understands what words actually mean".”

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff

  • “In popular parlance, a "luddite" is a person who despises or fears things that are designated technology.”

    amor mundi

  • “This doesn't drastically change the Sony PRS v. Kindle dynamic, it could help Sony's readers appeal to a certain special kind of luddite: the one who is somehow fine with eBooks, but for whom contemporary fiction and fancy "Whispernet" technologies, "nice screens" and”

    Gizmodo

  • luddite' move - rather, it's looking forward, rather than being chained to the problems of possessing that 'thing in the corner'.”

    Silversprite

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  • nycanthro Then there's Culluluddite, for those who fiercely believe cellulite diminishes attractiveness. Mar 4, 2009

  • Prolagus @ AbraxasZugzwang:
    The word is celluddite, of course. Apr 25, 2008

  • nicsims -Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.

    -One who opposes technical or technological change.

    Sep 17, 2007

  • abraxaszugzwang is there a word that means "anti cell phone"? Jan 26, 2007

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