to show respectful submission; yielding to someone else (generally given to someone who has more experience or senior to you); dutifulness
Saguaro Signal
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Judge greenlights 62 miles of border wall on tribal border strip
A federal judge rejected the Tohono O'odham Nation's bid to block 62 miles of border wall, citing a 1907 federal buffer and national-security deference, per Capitol Media Services.
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岡﨑 晴輝
@okazakiseiki.bsky.social
Goodin, Robert (2020) "Between Full Endorsement and Blind Deference," Journal of Deliberative Democracy, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 25–32.
ラフォン『近道なき民主主義』の書評論文。グッディンによれば、ラフォンは、市民が法や政策を「全面的是認」することを民主主義の理想とし、人々に「盲従」（blind deference）を求める「近道」（shortcuts）を退ける。しかし、……
aktiv3.sblo.jp/article/1917...
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Michael Sappir
@m.sappir.net
If there’s anything to reckon with in Woke 1 it’s not the call-outs or whatever, it’s the deference politics and the way they were easily and predictably coopted by reactionaries.
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