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Shit-Shovelling Shills and Their Same Old Shams, Scams and Swill: New Faces, No Changes

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Source Summary

Take a look at this guy: Based on the teeth-gritting, is he: Unable to shake off a badger that’s gnawing his foot off? Unable to shake off a badger that’s gnawing his testicles off? Unable to take a piss? Unable to take a shit? Unable to believe the shit he’s shoveling? Hopefully for his physical well-being it is (5), but that, then, would only beg the question of why he’s shovelling it to begin with. Oh wait…I bet you can guess why: Some advocates within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community have presented a false choice between advocating for marriage equality and the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would outlaw workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The truth is that the steps we take toward one goal also bring us closer to the other goal. Equality begets equality. In fact, this week’s much-celebrated announcement

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Shit-Shovelling Shills and Their Same Old Shams, Scams and Swill: New Faces, No Changes” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, 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 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “Shit-Shovelling Shills and Their Same Old Shams, Scams and Swill: New Faces, No Changes” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights 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 labor and employment policy. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights 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.

Content analysis

Ranked themes and framings

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Themes

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
2
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
95%
3
Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
87%
4
Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
60%
5
Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
22%
6
Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
22%

Academic framing

1
Legal analysis
100%

Policy framing

1
Labor and employment policy
100%

Editorial function

Source topics

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Granular comparative context

How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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13 2005

6 2006

43 2007

38 2008

23 2009

6 2010

107 2011

45 2012

125 2013

57 2014

17 2015

7 2016

14 2017

22 2018

6 2019

1 2021

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Kat

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