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But the fact is that there is a recognizable problem or a collection of problems, and ridiculing them is nothing more than a defensive gesture stemming from our own discomfort at facing them (if I may be allowed a little armchair analysis of my own).
Under the headline "Duel in Washington," the editorial said that Greenspan, by publicly ridiculing the president's plan for investing $700 billion in the Social Security system, had effectively rejected the key point of his State of the Union address.
Mexicans like to call Chicanos pocho, ridiculing their sometimes poor Spanish and their lack of knowledge about Mexico and Mexican customs.
I'd bet that each famine-wracked region in history had at least one person like Landsburg who had been predicting 2 percent economic growth for centuries and ridiculing anyone who tried to consider the consequences of their actions.
George Will has written column after column sermonizing about First Amendment excesses, lecturing sternly about the difference between "speech" and "action," and ridiculing the idea that (for example) flag-burning sends a political message and therefore qualifies for First Amendment protection.