The Oldest Trick In The Anti-Civil Rights Playbook
While I’m amused at times about the hysteria being whipped up about transpeople and the bathrooms we relieve ourselves in, it is never too far from my mind as a transperson of color that the same arguments people are uttering now about us are the same ones that the Forces of Intolerance fighting to defend Jim Crow segregation were using to defend ‘separate but equal’ facilities back in the day. I’m more than a little sick of the arguments being whipped up by predominately white radical lesbian separatists and their WWBT apologists that it’s okay to discriminate against transpeople because of your specious arguments about ‘safety’. Well, people who shared your ethnicity made the same ‘safety’ agruments to justfy Jim Crow segregation. . It’s the oldest trick in the anti civil rights playbook to ‘scurr’ on the fence people into opposing the enactment of legislation to satisfy the legitimate human
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“The Oldest Trick In The Anti-Civil Rights Playbook” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging violence, safety, and dehumanization. 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, “The Oldest Trick In The Anti-Civil Rights Playbook” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights was being argued in relation to violence, safety, and dehumanization. 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 public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and violence, safety, and dehumanization, 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
- 1Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict38%
- 3Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life29%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 28%
Editorial function
Source topics
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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.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history455
- Community and organizing291
- Public policy and governance159
- Education and youth147
- Culture, identity, and representation141
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization136
- Labor, economics, and institutions131
- Family and relationships129
- History, archives, and memory115
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse114
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination170
- Public accommodations and facilities125
- Elections and democratic governance96
- Criminal justice and public safety86
- Labor and employment policy50
- Research ethics and data governance49
- Housing and social services31
- Administrative classification and identity documents22
Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.
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Mari
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.
Cooke
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.
Cristan
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.
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