anachronism
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Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times has dismissed it as “a silly anachronism.”
From Salon
The Court held that the formula was an anachronism from the Jim Crow era and didn’t account for racial progress.
Their opposition to transportation projects and other infrastructure, though supposedly grounded in Jeffersonian principle, was a roundabout way of retarding industrial development and ensuring that slavery did not become an economic anachronism.
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These anachronisms and inequities are further exacerbated by the unaccountable malefactors of the wealthiest classes, who are able to thwart any fundamental reforms that might weaken the popular urge for a radical or totalitarian solution.
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Israel is in some ways an anachronism in that 20th-century trajectory.
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