Last Ditch Effort: The Right Wing Whopper Lies
Unbelievably, I woke up to find this in a google alert:”Bringing back Hitler and the SS” From the get go, it’s filled with lies: “Right now we have a bill called HR 2015 that, in my opinion, would bring back forced hiring by our government for local business. Surprised, I am not.” From the bill: No Preferential Treatment or Quotas- Nothing in this Act shall be construed or interpreted to require or permit- (1) any covered entity to grant preferential treatment to any individual or to any group because of the actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity of such individual or group on account of an imbalance which may exist with respect to the total number or percentage of persons of any actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity employed by any employer, referred or classified for employment by any employment agency or labor organization, admitted to
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Community significance
“Last Ditch Effort: The Right Wing Whopper Lies” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to labor, economics, and institutions, while also engaging transgender identity and history. 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 2007 at Transadvocate.com, “Last Ditch Effort: The Right Wing Whopper Lies” provides dated evidence of how labor, economics, and institutions was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and labor and employment policy. It links that institutional frame to labor, economics, and institutions and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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Themes
- 1Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community77%
- 3Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community42%
- 4Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life40%
- 5Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life33%
- 6Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict19%
Academic framing
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Policy framing
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- 438%
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How “Labor, economics, and institutions” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 4 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2011.
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history175
- Law and civil rights136
- Community and organizing124
- Culture, identity, and representation62
- Education and youth62
- Public policy and governance60
- History, archives, and memory47
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse43
- Family and relationships43
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization36
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