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Jason Robert Brown's Parade – an unflinching story of small-town antisemitism and corruption set to arresting music – is a terrific piece which proves that a musical can buck the genre's backward-thinking tendency.
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Should we be surprised that the repugniscum party is comprised of racists, backward-thinking, regressive, selfish, narrow-minded, yet paradoxically, Bible-thumpers.
Think Progress » The Party of Lincoln falls short on civil rights. 2010
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In the backward-thinking cancervative world, corporate welfare = good; individual welfare = baaaaad.
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We have some of the same, you know, backward-thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.
Hickenlooper Haunted By 'Backward-Thinking' Comment Andrea Rael 2010
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Avenue and spending like a bunch of maniacs??? once again we see the lack of intellectual honesty on the part of these backward-thinking guys is breathtaking ..
Matthew Yglesias » Mike Pence Calls for Massive Anti-Stimulus 2009
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We have some of the same, you know, backward-thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.
Hickenlooper Haunted By 'Backward-Thinking' Comment Andrea Rael 2010
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Today, America has become mostly backward-thinking on these types of investments; focused on preserving the past 50 years rather than preparing for the next 50.
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I have more faith in democrats than she does, even older and more provincial democrats who are still struggling with their ingrained stereotypes of minorities, and have little doubt that they will unite behind Obama and overcome ignorant bigotry and discrimination when the alternative is to vote for more dismal, backward-thinking, visionless conservative policies.
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It's Moose's bolder backward-thinking initiative that has me lovin 'it!
I Humbly Submit My C.V. For the All-White Basketball League 2010
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For a backward-thinking conservative to believe that America should be finished making progress may not be a huge surprise, but it's a stance that most of the country wholeheartedly rejects.
Matt Finkelstein: Rep. Foxx Cites Fake Quote, Claims Obama Campaigned on Making the Country Worse 2009
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