But the right’s knee-jerk response

Russian translation: естественная реакция \"правых\"

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English term or phrase:	But the right’s knee-jerk response
Russian translation:	естественная реакция \"правых\"
Entered by:	LanaUK

20:28 Sep 13, 2011

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Social Sciences - Journalism / Politics

English term or phrase: But the right’s knee-jerk response

Moral malaise
This week’s multiplying riots had some common features—looting, arson, attacks on the police—but they spanned different places, races, ages and sexes. Race was not the defining issue, as it was in many of the disturbances of the 1980s. One of the first to appear in court for looting was a 31-year-old teaching assistant: hardly an identikit hooligan. That left politicians free to project their own rationales on the carnage.

For some on the left, the real villain was the government’s public-spending cuts. This view is given superficial support by the fact that the 1980s outbreaks happened during the “Thatcher cuts”. But it is still a lazy fantasy. It might be comforting to think of the riots as an extension of a familiar debate—and to argue that the underlying ills can be easily remedied with a little more state largesse—but there is little reason to do so. Unlike the riots in Britain in the 1980s, Los Angeles in 1992 or France in 2005, these were not overtly political or racial. And since the cuts have barely bitten yet, that explanation doesn’t wash.

***But the right’s knee-jerk response***—that this is criminality, pure and simple, and that to seek a deeper explanation is to excuse the culprits—is also wrong. There is clearly a cadre of young people in Britain who feel they have little or no stake in the country’s future or their own. The barriers that prevent most youngsters from running amok—an inherent sense of right and wrong; concern for their job and education prospects; shame—seem not to exist in the minds of the rioters. Britain needs to try to understand why that is so.

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естественная реакция "правых"

Explanation:
Пример взят из Lingvo 12
That was just a knee-jerk response — Это была всего лишь естественная реакция

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Note added at 13 mins (2011-09-13 20:41:22 GMT)
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the right wing of a party - правое крыло партии

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Note added at 10 hrs (2011-09-14 07:04:59 GMT)
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IMHO возможные вариантны: предсказуемая/ожидаемая реакция
http://www.google.com.ua/#hl=ru&sugexp=gsis,i18n=true&cp=15&...
Сомневаюсь, что представители "правых" реагируют бессознательно, машинально, непроизвольно...

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естественная реакция "правых"

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утробная реакция правых

Michael Korovkin

машинальная/непроизвольная/автоматическая/бессознательная реакция

Marina Khonina

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but the right’s knee-jerk response машинальная/непроизвольная/автоматическая/бессознательная реакция

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Это выражение имеет определенную негативную коннотацию:

Knee-jerk, Adj.: (of a response) Automatic and unthinking: "a knee-jerk reaction".

Поэтому я бы не стала ограничиваться прилагательным "естественная", т.к. оно, в отличие от фразы оригинала, не несет оценочной характеристики.

Reference: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&site=webhp&q=knee-je...

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but the right’s knee-jerk response

естественная реакция "правых"

interprivate
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11 hrs confidence:

but the right’s knee-jerk response утробная реакция правых

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Michael Korovkin
Italy
Local time: 20:05
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Russian
PRO pts in category: 16

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