Boycotts, hypocrisy, and the Christian Right’s favorite scare tactic
As many readers may be aware, the American Family Association (sponsor of conservative Christian news site OneNewsNow) has organized a boycott of McDonald’s. (At various times during the past decade AFA has also boycotted Ford, Target, and Disney.) According to AFA’s official “Boycott McDonald’s” website, the fast food chain’s sin is “refusing to remain neutral in the culture wars”. McDonald’s is a member of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and has donated money to the organization. Richard Ellis, Vice President of Communications at McDonald’s USA, is on the NGLCC’s board of directors. The “Boycott McDonald’s” website explicitly states that “ is not about how homosexual employees are treated”, but other statements in various AFA documents indicate that this should not be taken at face value. Only two sentences further, the boycott website follows with “McDonald’s has chosen not to remain neutral but to give the full weight
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Community significance
“Boycotts, hypocrisy, and the Christian Right’s favorite scare tactic” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2008 at Transadvocate.com, “Boycotts, hypocrisy, and the Christian Right’s favorite scare tactic” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to healthcare and medicine. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is labor and employment policy and healthcare regulation. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and healthcare and medicine, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life84%
- 3Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community82%
- 4Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication78%
- 5Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict58%
- 6Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community53%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 274%
- 318%
- 412%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 243%
- 329%
- 421%
Editorial function
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
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Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities177
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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Cristan Williams
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Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
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