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But it is difficult for people who are denied voting rights to protect their voting rights, and judicial passivism in these cases would have buttressed discrimination, racism, sexism and bigotry.

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If that is the case, then those activities must undergo severe scrutiny, because it may well be that what seems like activism is actually “passivism,” and vice versa.

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“That passivism is perversion does not surprise me,” remarked Barres.

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But the very term, passivism, is usually significant and goes very deep psychologically.

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