maternalistic

• “Just ask your paternalistic (or is it 'maternalistic'?) government for what you want and they'll play Robin Hood in order to get it for you.”

  Rudy Brushes Off Talk Of Third-Party Challenge From Right

• “Does the full spectrum of "maternalistic" values actually correspond to progressive values any more or less than the full spectrum of "paternalistic" values?”

  BlueOregon

• “You have a much more paternalistic (maternalistic?) perspective than I do.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » A Crime to Repeatedly Insult a Minor

• “I'm utterly sick of the maternalistic attitude that still clings to the video game industry.”

  The Huffington Post: Doug Lieblich: Let Go of My Controller: The Maternalistic Attitude to Video Games

• “But for a supposed servant of the people to use such a metaphor to refer to a bill that affects us all in such important ways is outrageously and offensively paternalistic or should I say “maternalistic?” and flies in the face of what the relationship between the citizens and Congress in this country is meant to be.”

  HCR: Pelosi tells the simple-minded American people not to worry our pretty little heads about it

• “Mark, why do you have this maternalistic sense about Israel?”

  Obama: McCain 'obsessed' with Ahmadinajad

• “You have a much more paternalistic maternalistic? perspective than I do.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » A Crime to Repeatedly Insult a Minor

• “Thanks to Curly's Corner Shop we can read that: I am just about heartily sick and tired of the “nanny state” that we are living in, the regulation, the overbearing health and safety rules, the maternalistic approach to risk, the fear of the compensation claim etc., etc., etc.”

  Archive 2008-06-01

• “But schoolmarmish, maternalistic language is equally protected, and so I exercise my own First Amendment rights in offering you a dose of that healthful, if somewhat castor-oil-flavored medicine.”

  Patty Limerick: An Invitation to Redemption for Joe Wilson and Van Jones

• “But its a matter of empirical analysis, and not snap value judgments such as "paternalistic" or "maternalistic" which add heat but no light to the issue.”

  What's Wrong With the SEC?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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