So far the government has been deaf to such ideas.
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I'm not tone deaf to where I don't get it.
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He continued on, deaf to the street songs of immigrants.
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The United States has been largely tone deaf to these concerns.
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We have become deaf to the world since the industrial revolution.
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I&aposm not tone deaf to where I don&apost get it.
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He is totally tone-deaf to what is racism, what is bigotry.
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She has her headphones in and is deaf to the footsteps approaching.
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Lam seemed deaf to the concerns of more than a million demonstrators.
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But the ones that owned and sold us was deaf to it.
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The change is tone deaf to today's needs and must be stopped.
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They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
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It's completely tone deaf to the current economic realities facing working class Americans.
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And Silicon Valley, he insists, has been tone-deaf to the American mood.
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"It's tone-deaf to the desires and experience of a lot of LGBTQ people."
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"There's a point where concessions become tone-deaf to the market," Mr. Miller said.
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But the current administration appears deaf to the deeper histories the West can tell.
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But he was also deaf to inevitable and entirely fair questions about his behavior.
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Ears deaf to the screams: nose pinched, Fingers severed, another brilliant mind silenced forever.
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GUTFELD: How do you feel about, like, cochlear implants, which allows the deaf to hear?
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They're untethered and tone-deaf to the existential issues we're facing in this very instant.
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"It's a lesson to how to be tone deaf to the American public," he said.
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And it's not as though Valley folks are tone deaf to the problems of inequality.
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The other is insecure, withdrawn, and a mite tone-deaf to the world around him.
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The song of my DNA can make me deaf to the song of your DNA.
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To feel like you're kind of tone-deaf to something is not a good feeling.
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Now they are few in number, and nuclear-armed states seem deaf to their pleas.
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Why is EPA deaf to suggestions from small business on how it should minimize economic impacts?
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He's concerned that the museum is becoming tone-deaf to the realities of the surrounding communities.
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Others criticized it as tone deaf to the devastation methamphetamine has increasingly wrought on the state.
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You can range from profoundly deaf to some ability to hear sound above a certain threshold to hard-of-hearing with the ability to process speech, usually with the help of hearing aids or implant; smembers of the DHH community will also identify themselves as "Big 'D' deaf" to indicate they're part of the Deaf community, or "Little 'd' deaf" to indicate they are not involved in the Deaf community even though they have no hearing.
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"I found this decision to be incredibly tone-deaf, to put it mildly," Helwani said on ESPN.
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This is not to say that Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, will be deaf to China's overtures.
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DiMarco opened up about being deaf to PEOPLE in 2016 while competing on Dancing with the Stars.
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"In Nairobi, we are working with a school for the deaf to build staff housing," said Lautt.
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We are tone deaf to the underlying drivers of things like campus protests and expropriation without compensation.
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If they ever questioned the numbing consumerism that dictates their aspirations, they are deaf to it now.
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I think that no political decision maker can remain deaf to this call for justice between generations.
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I think that no political decision maker can remain deaf to this call for justice between generations.
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Some alleged she mishandled the Nassar scandal, and called her "tone deaf" to the severity of the crimes.
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We're protesting a government that's tone deaf to people that still go to jail because of marijuana prohibition.
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Time turns all pop culture into nostalgia, and you're almost deaf to its resonance once it finally resonates.
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But him aside, I don't recall anyone really mentioning it, unless I've been deaf to an expectant chorus.
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Americans tend to ignore — or, more accurately, be tone-deaf to — the fact that China is an autocracy.
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Never in my lifetime have US politicians been so tone-deaf to the aspirations and hopes of Europeans.
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Still, Tehran appeared tone-deaf to not one, but two unifying summit communiques urging it to change its behavior.
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I think I'm tone deaf to my own voice or something, I can't tell if it's good or not.
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Totally tone deaf to the social issues players are kneeling about, and clumsily navigating a changing societal landscape. 2.
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He was, at best, tone-deaf to the specific grievances and issues faced by people of color and women
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But some people thought it was a bit tone-deaf to promote fundraising efforts with a see-through top.
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I watched a city that seemed deaf to its own context, and wasn't able to deal with the social issues.
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This both preserves Uber's cashless philosophy, while also blunting criticism that its tone deaf to the concerns of its drivers.
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Investors under their sway hear good news and are deaf to the bad—and spread the bullish bug to others.
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Some swatters use a teletypewriter (TTY) relay -- a phone system created for people who are deaf -- to place 911 calls.
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A subterranean, subliminal rumble is building across America, although large populations in the West and Northeast seem deaf to it.
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She was not deaf to the claims by some members that a vote for ObamaCare was a political death blow.
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Using that term to describe the situation makes our community seem rather tone deaf to other societal problems around race.
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Because tech CEOs were essentially asleep at the wheel — and deaf to the warnings being sounded about their tools for years.
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"We're not tone-deaf to some of the concerns in our community where this could be potentially race-related," he said.
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Maybe it was just that it seems kind of, uh, tone deaf to have a playful time with an outright bigot.
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For what it's worth, I thought the inclusion of the painting was a curatorial misstep—tone-deaf to say the least.
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There's a lot of speculation about the president being tone-deaf to facts, but there's not much disagreement about the tone.
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A good critic is also a reporter, and he is not required to be deaf to the concerns of other diners.
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William's mother went on folding the dollar bills, her expression flat, as though she alone were deaf to her son's singing.
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"He is totally tone-deaf to what is racism, what is bigotry," Schumer said in an interview with CNBC's John Harwood.
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For example, religions are very alive to the need for repetition, which is something that secular culture is quite deaf to.
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But Democrats derided the education spending blueprint for the 2018 fiscal year as tone deaf to low-income and working-class Americans.
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It also indicates that NBC is tone deaf to the nation's heartbeat, which clearly is intensely focused on all matters political today.
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To the Editor: David Brooks's column struck me as particularly tone-deaf to the realities of being a young person in America today.
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Of course, the Conner parents' willfully conservative politics also lends itself to jokes that will feel tone deaf to its more liberal viewers.
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The only conclusion that makes sense in this case is that America's corporate leaders are just too tone deaf to get it. Why?
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"He's emblematic of a generation of Japanese politicians who are tone deaf to this kind of issue and out of touch," Cleveland said.
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It would be tone-deaf to conclude that virtual reality has some magical properties that can mend the deep wounds of Canada's history.
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Still, their plot lines have been criticized for being nostalgic for a bygone era and tone-deaf to the changes in modern Britain.
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The problem with these populists is not that they are elevating irrelevant issues, but that they can be tone-deaf to other issues.
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Their conduct is ruthless and feeds radicalism, but the main players are deaf to pleas from the outside world to end the killing.
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This has caused them to be deaf to concerns that many voters have about the effects of immigration on wages and public services.
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His follow-up piece, an attempt to dampen the firestorm he created, continues to be tone deaf to American politics, policy and history.
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"I am not afraid of living in the American boondocks," he assured a Massachusetts acquaintance, both men deaf to any hint of prophesy.
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Now, the family is ready to adopt again, and are working to bring 5-year-old Cody, also deaf, to the U.S. from China.
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"I get that it's tone-deaf to do it in Myanmar, but I think the outcry was a bit much," one entrepreneur told me.
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But you can't expect the public in the meantime to be blind and deaf to the revelations that are coming out in the news.
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"The restraint, I think, is because the industry's savvy and they're not tone-deaf to the tenor of things," the industry insider told me.
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Anywheres are disconnected from and deaf to the natural feelings of national kinship that animate their less well-heeled, less educated countrymen and women.
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Ms. Padden, a MacArthur Fellow for her research in world sign languages, was born deaf to deaf parents and grew up in deaf culture.
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"He clearly is going to receive the message, but he is pretending he is deaf to us," Mr. Fernández said of the Catalan president.
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Enamored of loyalty and deaf to charges of nepotism and conflict of interest, he has kept his kids in a tight circle around him.
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Washington (CNN Business)Facebook said Thursday that it was "not deaf" to criticism of its policy allowing politicians to spread lies on its platform.
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Nor were her characters deaf to the rumble of time's winged chariot: Anne Elliot's vain father, Sir Walter, entertains a theatrical horror of aging.
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Most important, his behavior suggests he is tone-deaf to the widely held belief among southern Nigerians that he promotes a northern Sunni Muslim agenda.
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A sweet sign-along A daughter helped her dad who's deaf to jam out by signing all the lyrics during a Three Days Grace concert.
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With the media following closely behind, the mayor came off as both aloof and tone deaf to the pain and anger of local black residents.
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Some form of ad blocking is here to stay, so long as advertisements are irritating and the adtech industry remains deaf to genuine privacy reform.
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Jupiter, in other words, may still be sitting on the republican throne, but he is not deaf to his critics, nor the concerns of ordinary folk.
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"You're deaf to the reality of a revolution with 20 years of democratic patrimony; you only follow the script written by the extreme right," he said.
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Earnest accused Republicans of being "deaf" to calls from Democrats and public health experts who say that more funding is necessary to combat the opioid epidemic.
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Instead, as a long evening reached its end, she was tone-deaf to how much she'd alienated the people watching her with everything she'd done wrong.
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Mr. Bragg, who was born deaf to deaf parents, began carving out a performing career in the late 21973s after studying with the mime Marcel Marceau.
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The idea of Facebook -- that Facebook -- trying to sell consumers on putting its camera and microphone in their homes seemed tone deaf, to say the least.
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" He also added, "No pun intended, but I think the county is being tone deaf to recognize opera as a form of cultural art but not Skrillex.
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Trump and many of his top officials believe reporters are so deaf to reality and so unfair to them that the only appropriate response is open warfare.
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His request could come off as tone-deaf to some, given that so many Americans are struggling to afford the skyrocketing cost of housing without government help.
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"An entity would have to be tone deaf to not understand that the United States had become a hostile place for Huawei to do business," he said.
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Stuart Blaugrund, the Dallas lawyer who represented the Land Grab Opponents, said in an interview that Mr. O'Rourke was "tone-deaf" to the appearance of a conflict.
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Many older painters had kept on painting because they were too deaf to catch the news of its death when it was shouted out from the rooftops.
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Clinton's rejoinder to Mr. Trump that "America never stopped being great" was tone deaf to millions of ordinary Americans struggling with debt, police brutality and pervasive inequality.
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The Obamacare replacement bill debacle is just one of the best examples of how the GOP Congressional leadership suddenly goes deaf to the peoples' concerns after Election Day.
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" The declaration pointed out that the Americans had repeatedly asked their "British brethren" to redress the problems, but the British "have been deaf to the voice of Justice.
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Ariana explains the "you wouldn't let anybody speak and instead" line in #TheLightIsComing: "It's about people & their loud ass opinions making them deaf to others & the light." pic.twitter.
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A preoccupation with their own woes over Brexit perhaps explains why senior EU officials appeared tone deaf to Spain's separatists -- who, it should be remembered, are EU citizens.
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"It's completely tone deaf to discourage this type of activity," said Quentin James, 30, a founder of the Collective PAC, an organization dedicated to electing more African-Americans.
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They have 24/7 help, including staff who are also deaf, to manage residents' schedules and medicines and attend to their needs -- helping them be as independent as possible.
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The timing of this event honoring a convicted rapist as a Hollywood darling is offensive and tone-deaf, to say the least, but it's not just about bad optics.
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He would have felt that way, of course, as he trudged off the field at Camp Nou, disconsolate and deaf to the warm ovation afforded him by Barcelona's fans.
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The protesters ridicule him as a president of the rich and say he is trying to balance his budgets on their backs as he remains deaf to their concerns.
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Tester said it was tone deaf to require senators to congregate at the same time Americans are being told that self-isolating is a matter of life or death.
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Although deaf to pleas from an ex-republican, they encouraged his writing, asked him for constitutional ideas and in time threw him the sop of a few minor missions.
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They are deaf to collisions between enormous supermassive black holes like the one at the center of our own galaxy—gravitational waves that peak less than ten times per second.
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Apple collaborated with the American Council of the Blind, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, and the National Association of the Deaf to come up with the emoji listed in the proposal.
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To those who hold these views, the European Union is the epitome of all that has gone wrong, an alien bureaucracy deaf to the traditions and values of its members.
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So Mr. Hawthorne moved to the sidewalk in front of The Times's headquarters, sat down cross-legged and stayed there, deaf to the pleas of security guards and senior editors.
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As he stood just feet from four of the last six presidents, he trashed them, talking about a Washington establishment blind and deaf to the struggles of less fortunate Americans.
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If this is a heavy-handed attempt to modulate expectations, it's coming across a tad tone deaf to a soccer world that's grown accustomed to La Roja dominating other countries.
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With his stolidly Soviet instincts he may be tone-deaf to the new Russian mood-music which tries to mix Orthodoxy, communism and secular geopolitical dreams in a single harmonised chant.
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Deaf to warnings of a looming humanitarian catastrophe, the Syrian government, backed by Russian bombers, this month resumed operations to retake Idlib province, the last major area still in rebel hands.
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At best, Corbyn appears tone deaf to the feelings and sensitivities of British Jews, many of whom now regard his party as not only hostile to Israel, but also to Jews.
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"That was tone-deaf to the Nth degree," said Melissa LaBonte, a political science professor at Fordham University who is a member of Campaign to Elect a Woman U.N. Secretary General.
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The decision was widely welcomed; it followed several months of criticism that Mr. Buhari was again deaf to the concerns of Nigerians, after several protests against alleged abuses by the agency.
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I don't believe "Eastern Christians" can impart much to the Le Pens of the world, who are as dishonest and as deaf to reason as the jihadists they claim to oppose.
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Previous ECOWAS delegations had left empty-handed, with Mr Jammeh proving deaf to stern finger-wagging administered by both Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari—himself a former military strongman—and Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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The letter points out that they hoped in a year when the Academy was addressing the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, that they would not be so "tone-deaf" to the depiction of their community.
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Having been bitten too many times as a child, I don't love dogs, but I'm not deaf to the pun in the title of Wes Anderson's new animated film, Isle of Dogs.
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With characters like profiteering Milo Minderbender, mediocre commander Major Major and parade loving Lieutenant Scheisskopf, "Catch-22" portrays a U.S. bomber squadron whose superiors are not just incompetent, but deaf to reason.
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" He added that Democrats, going forward, had to be "attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it," and had to reach out to "folks that are in communities that feel forgotten.
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This is part of what exacerbated the abuse problem for sure — because they were often tone-deaf to the concern of users in the outside world, meaning women and people of color.
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"The Ecumenical Patriarch cannot remain blind and deaf to the appeals that have been repeated for more than a quarter of a century," said Bartholomew's representative, Metropolitan Emmanuel, in an address alongside Poroshenko.
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The movie is so clueless and tone-deaf to the suffering of everyone involved in Afghanistan, on every side, that it contours its narrative to the emotional beats of this sheltered woman's life.
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And because BCIs can send electric signals as well, researchers believe the technology could eventually allow the deaf to hear and the blind to see by simulating the electric signals these senses create.
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He takes full responsibility for being insensitive and tone-deaf to the fact that his physical gesture could and did put Dr. Ballard in the untenable situation of not knowing what he intended.
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What they're saying: Critics blasted the cover as tone-deaf to the actual forces for change in Saudi Arabia, while the magazine says it is a celebration of progressive changes in the country.
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But this strategist also warned against reading too much into that -- it would be tone deaf to raise small dollars now, given the economic stress many people on Sanders' list are currently experiencing.
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"It's hard for hearing actors to look deaf to deaf viewers," Ms. Padden said, since American Sign Language is not just a finger alphabet but a system of expression employing the whole body.
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We see a similar thing going on, initiated due to different reasons, in Puerto Rico right now with respect to another governor who has been deaf to the pleas and concerns of their population.
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Powell's promise to act "as appropriate" was not meant to signal a rate cut, he said, but was merely meant to show the U.S. central bank was not tone deaf to rising trade tensions.
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HanA**holeSolo's creation is classic Trumpery: it shows the President figuratively wrestling the media to the ground, yes, but with a dash of self-aware humor that the left is oddly tone-deaf to.
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Despite progressive moments, like Hari Nef walking the runway for Gucci or Ashley Graham making it into the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, it can be defiantly tone-deaf to the way the world looks.
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It's not obvious that we should have more certainty about the Biden theory of electorate than the Sanders one — that voters will be deaf to Republican efforts to paint him as an authoritarian communist.
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It's an amusing twist that Lydia, who means to be a do-gooder, is really a classic carpetbagger, tone deaf to the needs of the town she once did everything she could to escape.
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"In the current political environment, it looks tone deaf to have an all-white, all-male ticket," said Jennifer Lawless, a professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on women in politics.
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" He was deaf to the argument that the population growth was itself the result of a previous policy, from the fifties, in which the Party had declared that "a larger population means greater manpower.
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But it comes off as a little tone deaf to slurp up data as intimate as health care records without informing patients, at a time when data privacy concerns are more heightened than ever.
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Because Scott Pruitt is tone deaf to the views of the vast majority of Americans who favor strong public health protections and understand that environmental protection and economic growth can go hand in hand.
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Even when the lights don't come out to play, I can confirm that it's an unforgettable rush to bump along forest trails behind a pack of dogs that seems deaf to the musher's cries.
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DHILLON: Right, the problem here is the FBI leadership and DOJ leadership for that matter appear to be tone deaf to the bias that is very evident in the staffing of all of these investigations.
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Driving the unrest is anger, particularly among low-paid workers, over a squeeze on household incomes, and a belief that Macron is deaf to citizens' needs as he enacts reforms seen as favoring the wealthy.
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His stance has only intensified the resentment many in south-west Virginia have towards Richmond, strengthening the view that the cosmopolitan eastern crescent that controls the state's politics and economy is deaf to their values.
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Apple can't afford to be deaf to the desires of those potential buyers, and part of its motivation for introducing the iPhone Plus models was to tap into the enthusiasm for phablet devices across Asia.
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For years, the Fed had professed to be data dependent when in fact it was basing much of its decisions on models-based analyses that often seemed tone-deaf to the reality on the ground.
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Soccer is now too scientific, too professional, too driven by the quantifiable for the actions of fans to count for anything, ran one strand of logic: The players are deaf to the jeers, inured to intimidation.
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His other regret was that after Motörhead's greatest hit, "Ace of Spades", had soared to number 15 in the charts in 1980, even the band's fans seemed deaf to the equally good music that came next.
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It's not unusual for family members of the deaf to have only a rudimentary understanding of American Sign Language, said Beth Barnes, a certified sign language interpreter who has several deaf family members, including her parents.
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"What happened Saturday was an unfortunate display, and rather tone-deaf to what the impact really is," Derrick Johnson, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, told MSNBC on Monday.
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"For years, we have struggled with an EPA that was not only tone deaf to the needs and concerns of rural America, it was downright adversarial," Pat Roberts, a Republican senator from Kansas, said in a statement.
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell's promise to act "as appropriate" was not meant to signal a rate cut, he said, but was merely meant to show the U.S. central bank was not tone deaf to rising trade tensions.
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Driving the unrest is anger about rising living costs - particularly among low-paid workers - and a perception that President Emmanuel Macron is deaf to their needs as he presses on with reforms seen as favoring the wealthy.
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But the company continued to get dragged online for being tone-deaf to the history of black people in the US. The company did not answer BuzzFeed News' questions about the ad and how it was created.
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"This administration seems to be completely tone deaf to civil rights history," said Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and one of the attorneys who defended DAPA in the Supreme Court.
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Driving the unrest is anger among workers and the lower-middle class over the squeeze on household incomes and a belief that Macron is deaf to citizens' needs as he enacts reforms seen as favouring the wealthy.
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The truth is Republicans are too chicken to be any of those things and too politically tone deaf to see why their cowardly decisions to "play it safe" are producing negative results for them at every turn.
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But to her growing list of critics, including the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and rising anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, she is seen as stubborn and tone-deaf to the concerns of ordinary Germans.
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When President Trump walked out of the G-20 session on Africa in Hamburg, Germany in July, substituting in his daughter Ivanka, I called it utterly tone-deaf to the well-being of Africa's 1.6 billion people.
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" Clinton told the comic that "hey, there are a lot of people that don&apost have any memory of that, and all they saw was me mad, and I seemed to be tone-deaf, to put it mildly.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Pope Francis told members of the world's wealthy political and economic elite on Wednesday that they should not be deaf to the cry of the poor and must consider their own role in creating inequality.
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"It has been tone-deaf to the complexities that underlie a growing distrust of science funded by a removed and distant federal government that locally does not appear to be in service of the public good," she said.
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But some protest organizers and opposition Democrats said Lam remained tone-deaf to public demands, namely that she state categorically a retraction of the bill, step down immediately and pledge not to prosecute any protesters on rioting charges.
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"It is time for her to listen to people who will help her see that she is in a really tight spot and that she has been tone deaf to that in so many ways," said the comms exec.
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All populists are at heart conspiracy theorists, who pretend that easy solutions exist to society's woes and have only not been tried to date because elites are wicked and deaf to the sturdy common-sense of decent, ordinary folk.
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"It is time for her to listen to people who will help her see that she is in a really tight spot and that she has been tone deaf to that in so many ways," said the PR exec.
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Chinese authorities are not entirely deaf to their complaints; since last year they seem to have tightened restrictions on clam-harvesting somewhat (and an anti-corruption drive led by Mr Xi may be lowering demand for the showiest shells).
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"Given that the U.S. and the U.K. had so much at stake together, he was oddly deaf to the idea that America had allies and was very critical of the U.K. in almost everything we did," especially over Iran.
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A year after becoming president, Muhammadu Buhari pulled out of his first official visit to Lagos on Monday, averting citywide gridlock but angering business leaders who say the 153-year-old former military ruler is deaf to their plight.
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Even if the stock market slide doesn't hold through the week or the month, Trump can prove he's at least not tone deaf to potential panics and that's he big enough to at least acknowledge a stock market drop.
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"If the situation does not improve and if the government remains deaf to French people's claims, we are heading towards fuel shortage and a significant worsening of our economy," Franck Manchon, coordinator for the union Force Ouvriere at Total, told Reuters.
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President Xi and his policy advisors are not tone deaf to growing anti-trade sentiment rising around the world and can hear loud and clear the noise emanating from the White House of possible trade restrictions and imposition of trade barriers.
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In case I happened to be deaf to the gossip around the show, the gallery was kind enough to provide me with Jerry Saltz's review when I requested images — perhaps to help me come to the conclusions shared by others.
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Israel's leaders and public are deaf to warnings by US officials and the remnants of the Israeli "peace camp" that the status quo is not tenable, because such warnings don't jibe with their experience: For Israel, the occupation has no downside.
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One of the best parts of major NHL events is that you know someone over the age of 50 wearing a very expensive suit will sit in front of a microphone and say something that ranges from tone deaf to staggeringly stupid.
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Surprisingly good, given his and Twitter's long years of free speech fundamentalism — when the company gained a reputation for being wilfully blind and deaf to the fact that for free expression to flourish online it needs a protective shield of civic limits.
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Apple has consulted with organizations such as American Council of the Blind, Cerebral Palsy Foundation, and National Association for the Deaf, to propose 13 emojis to the Unicode Consortium, who is responsible for all the letters and characters in our smartphone keyboards.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Philip Hammond said he was "not deaf" to signs of weariness among voters about the country's near decade-long grip on public spending which has come under renewed criticism after a deadly fire in a London tower block.
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It's easy for someone like Leno, an older white male, to say that late-night comics should stay out of politics, but the fact is it's 2019 -- and it would be tone deaf to ignore the political and social challenges facing Americans.
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The contradictions in the White House narrative over the Porter affair are emblematic of a chaotic few days in an administration that remains tone deaf to a world beginning to hear the long-silenced voices of victims of sexual assault and other abuse.
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"If the situation does not improve and if the government remains deaf to French people's claims, we are heading towards fuel shortage and a significant worsening of our economy," Franck Manchon, coordinator for the union Force Ouvriere (FO) at Total, told Reuters.
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As exit polls, however fallible, began confirming a too-familiar narrative of Clinton's unfavorability, so began the endless stream of valid critiques from the left: How was Clinton's campaign so tone-deaf to a growing populist movement among the white working class?
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Additionally, the Women's Convention having Bernie Sanders as the opening speaker also suggests a desire to placate the left (and unite it, I'd imagine) but is also tone deaf to the feelings that many progressive women voters feel about Hillary losing because of her gender.
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In a larger context, this represented the Black Lives Matter moment for Democrats in the House, eager to challenge a majority in Congress that seems tone deaf to strong public support of gun safety, criminal justice system reforms and combatting racial and economic inequality.
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We should be less concerned about the message that Alexandria's success is sending the leaders of the Democratic Party -- since they continue to be tone deaf to the needs of their base -- and more focused on what her win means for a new multiracial democracy.
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They spend so much time among wealthy individuals and corporations, and among consultants who service them when they are not servicing politicians, they have become tone-deaf to the cry for economic help from citizens who are struggling far more than misleading economic data suggests.
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Taking what curators describe as the "diverse, ambiguous and often incommensurable manifestations" of art and politics, the exhibition panders to zombie millennials, confused and bewildered by the lack of alternatives under capitalism, completely tone deaf to what is clearly an emergent and divisive culture war.
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But politics fixes on symbols, and the flames racing up the 24-story tower unleashed the pent-up anger of survivors and residents of other low-cost public housing, known in Britain as council flats, at an officialdom deaf to their complaints and conditions.
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"It is surprising to me that a media outlet would reject an advertisement on the basis of something like this, which is to me really tone-deaf to what&aposs happening in the world and amongst people who are getting married," Chi told Insider.
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And I think beyond that, the pictures and how the administration acted, that created a wall-to-wall story because they were tone deaf to where the country was and where I think modern day society think it is not OK. Yes, we need border security.
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See also: "They chose to come and fight for the freedom of Hong Kong" (June 12th 2019)China seems deaf to mass protests in Hong Kong over extradition (June 10th 2019)A draft bill would allow Hong Kong to hand suspects to China's police (April 4th 2019)
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Like most individuals, leaders of countries or armed groups may go to great lengths to protect their self-esteem, and this can make them deaf to reason, said Paul Randolph, a mediation expert at Regent's University London and author of a new book on the issue.
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"People who argue that the Republicans should play footsy with President Obama and the Democrats on this Supreme Court opening are the same types of people who are simply tone deaf to the political moment we're experiencing," said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union.
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What is it with the arrogance of the occupier and the oppressor and their backers that makes them deaf to this simple truth: Our chains will be broken before we are, because it is human nature to heed the call for freedom regardless of the cost.
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When the system seemed broken in the past, when the elites and the major parties seemed irretrievably corrupt and deaf to their appeals, their response was to build true democratic movements from the ground up, and to push them on to victory even if that took decades.
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The USB drive that Spotify sent journalists (Image: TechCrunch) The USB drive that Spotify sent journalists (Image: TechCrunch) Jake Williams, a former NSA hacker and founder of Rendition Infosec, called the move "amazingly tone deaf" to encourage reporters into plugging in the drives to their computers.
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Assuming there was no racial subtext to Jackson's dropping the word "posse" while describing James's management team and friends — and nothing in his long playing and coaching career suggests that there would be — he still came across as tone deaf to the potential insensitivity of his comments.
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And when asked if he knew about the complaints in the interview with CNN last week, he said, "I was a little bit busy running around the country trying to make the case" — a curt response that was widely viewed as tone deaf to a sensitive issue.
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A subsequent rebooted take with the two "Amazing Spider-Man" films recruited a promising filmmaker, Marc Webb, and an eager rising star, Andrew Garfield, the resulting movies felt tone-deaf to the particular charms and formulas that had made its lead hero a sensation for so many years.
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Importantly, the M.I.T. team demonstrated that the speech and music circuits are in different parts of the brain's sprawling auditory cortex, where all sound signals are interpreted, and that each is largely deaf to the other's sonic cues, although there is some overlap when it comes to responding to songs with lyrics.
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There is also a dangerous paradox attached to any action launched on the grounds that North Korea is deemed deaf to reason, notes Joseph DeTrani, a former intelligence officer and commentator for "The Cipher Brief", a national-security website, who is also a semi-official envoy entrusted with meeting senior North Korean diplomats.
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The Paris mayor seems particularly tone deaf to such analysis and it is both unfortunate and infuriating that she chose to try to intimidate these women, rather than to use their festival as an opportunity to do the public work of justice and reckoning with France's long and complicated history of racism.
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Mr Macron's challenge will be to defend the principles of his eco-tax, as well as his image as a determined leader who will not cave in to protests on the streets as so many of his predecessors have done, while overcoming the perception that he is deaf to the concerns of ordinary folk.
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The Fed chairman seems to be tone-deaf to investor concerns, there will be no quick end to the trade war, and political instability is likely to persist as Trump embraces ill-advised policies, perhaps to deflect attention away from the really big story in Washington in the coming weeks, which will be the Robert Mueller indictments.
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"It is absolutely tone deaf to try and pretend like Silicon Valley or the tech industry is rich simply because some people... happened to be better at 'hacking computers' and worked harder than others, were more focused that others and out of sheer smarts, cunning and hard-work have created enormous economic wealth for themselves," Suster writes in his response post.
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Which is precisely how the bathers appearedafter we had changed at the cliff-side hoteland made our way down to the rocky beach — pillars of flesh in bathing suits,two pillars tossing a colorful ball,one pillar lying with his arm around another, even a tiny pillar with a pail and shovel,all deaf to a voice as old as the surf itself.
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But this company made bullets, and to the bartender, it seemed a little … tone-deaf to have a big bullet party on the Hill a week after Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, used rifles and pistols to murder 14 people and injure 22 more at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, the deadliest terror attack in America since 9/11.
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"When you have babies being taken away from their mothers, you have to ask why the counselor to the president — who was brought in to help the president create good policies surrounding women, parental leave, domestic policies that are important to women in this country — you have to ask why Ivanka Trump is so tone deaf to post a picture about her special day yesterday with her daughter," she said.
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Richard Brodsky, a former Democratic assemblyman from Westchester County who led the opposition to a congestion zone in 2008, said that just as before, it failed because its supporters were tone-deaf to the financial realities of working-class and middle-class drivers, and made no serious policy effort — no traffic studies, no public hearings — to assess the causes of congestion and the impact of the new fees.
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" Puerto Ricans have felt that Washington was slow to act, and Trump's comments in Puerto Rico appeared tone-deaf to many: He gave himself an "A+" on the administration's performance; he favorably compared the number of deaths to Katrina; he told Puerto Ricans that they have "thrown our budget a little out of whack;" and, in the most famous series of tweets, he called some of its politicians "ingrates.
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She would not be the first politics-adjacent woman to draw criticism for choosing very expensive (and seemingly tone-deaf to average Americans) attire for political events: Hillary Clinton got flak from top Republicans (Sean Spicer included) for wearing a $12,495 Giorgio Armani coat during her New York primary victory speech in April 2016, and Michelle Obama famously stepped out in $540 lavender sneakers while speaking at a food bank in 2009.
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San Francisco's problems, according to many activists and critics, include glaring income inequality, police-perpetuated violence, a tech industry tone-deaf to the needs of the city it operates in, housing costs so high not even the middle class can afford a place to live, and a government that seems more concerned with courting big business and throwing parties than with alleviating the pain many San Franciscans face on a daily basis.
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